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JUNE 2011 BOOK GIVEAWAY

First, we offer hearty congratulations to Andrea, the winner of our May, 2011 Book Giveaway, Challenging Assumptions in Education by Wendy Priesnitz. Given there may be a postal strike in Canada, it will be interesting to see the route the book will take to reach the home of the winner! Thank you to everyone who entered, and we hope we’ll see you again in the June, 2011 Book Giveaway.

For June, 2011, we offer What Really Matters by David H. Albert & Joyce Reed (Introduction by Wendy Priesnitz, Foreword by John Taylor Gatto) – A treasury of intelligent, penetrating, heartfelt, and often good-humored conversations about children and education. David Albert and Joyce Reed are deeply experienced homeschooling parents and a delightful pair of writers. In this collection of essays, they share their thoughts and experiences, playing off each others’ experiences with and ruminations about society, schools, children and learning…and showing by example how children and young people thrive when trusted to learn from life. This is the second book in the Natural Life Magazine Natural Parenting Book Series. Softcover, 176 pages.

What Really Matters
Two Veteran Homeschooling Advocates Discuss What Learning Is Really All About
by David Albert and Joyce Reed

A treasury of intelligent, penetrating, heartfelt, and often good-humored conversations about children and education. David Albert and Joyce Reed are deeply experiences homeschooling parents and a delightful pair of writers. In this collection of essays, they share their thoughts and experiences, playing off each others’ experiences with and ruminations about society, schools, children and learning…and showing by example how children and young people thrive when trusted to learn from life.

This is a book that will give confidence to any parent considering homeschooling their own children, and will be a welcome sitting-down-with-elders for those who are already deeply engaged in learning without schooling.
~ Kirsten Olson, author of Wounded By School: Recapturing the Joy in Learning and Standing Up To Old School Culture

If I could recommend only one book for familiarizing oneself with the joys and unique possibilities within homeschooling, this would have to be the one.
~ Lillian Jones, creator of BestHomeschooling.org, mother of a happy and successful homeschool grad, and longtime volunteer for HSC, the HomeSchool Association of California

 

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Contest Details

CONTEST DEADLINE: June 30, 2011; 11:59PM (EDT)

NO PURCHASE IS NECESSARY TO ENTER

THE PARENT AT THE HELM BOOK GIVEAWAY!

HOW TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS CONTEST: To enter, please “like” Parent at the Helm on Facebook, follow parentatthehelm on Twitter, subscribe to our irregular newsletter with the link near the top of the page (this gets you a little something extra each month!), or sign up for e-mail or RSS feeds (on the left side of the homepage). Then, submit a comment on the PARENT AT THE HELM May Book Giveaway blog article which you can always reach by clicking on the book title at the top of the page. In your comment, please let us know which of the above steps you took, and anything else you’d like to tell us! If by some chance you had already previously covered all of the above steps, please let us know that in your comment (and accept our deepest thanks! [g])

You are allowed one entry per book, with the exception of BLOGGERS: I know your pain! [g]! Blog about this giveaway, include the link to your post in your comment, and you will receive an extra entry in the contest as a thank you for all of your hard work!

PARENT AT THE HELM is not responsible for errors, omissions, interruptions, deletions, defects in part or whole, delays in operations or transmission, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to or alterations of entry materials, or for any technical or non-technical network, telephonic, electronic, computer, hardware or software malfunctions of any kind, or inaccurate or partial transmission of or failure to receive entry information by PARENT AT THE HELM on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet, at any Web site or at any combination of these.

WINNER SELECTION: The winner shall be selected using Random.org’s “Randomizer” on or about the morning of July 1, 2011.

ODDS OF WINNING: You’ve got great odds! Odds are determined by the number of entries received.

OBTAINING YOUR PRIZE: We will contact winner by email only. PARENT AT THE HELM will make a reasonable effort to contact you on the day you are determined as winner, but we are not responsible for misdirected notification because of problems with the e-mail address you provide to us. If we cannot reach you, you may be disqualified, with an alternate winner selected. In addition, a winner who does not comply with the Official Rules will be disqualified and an alternate winner will be selected. Return of any prize or prize notification as “undeliverable” will result in disqualification and an alternate winner will be selected.

CONDITIONS: Your participation binds you to these official rules. By participating, you waive any right to claim ambiguity of said rules. All decisions regarding this contest, including, but not limited to, selecting winners, will be made by PARENT AT THE HELM. That decision is final. As winner you are solely responsible for any applicable federal, state and local taxes.

ANNOUNCING THE PRIZE WINNER: We’ll let you know in a blog post who was the lucky winner after the July 1, 2011, drawing.

Remember, you can’t win a book if you don’t enter the Book Giveaway!

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