The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home, Revised and Updated Edition

This book helped motivate me and give me the resources to feel confident about homeschooling my daughter. I would highly recommend it.

"The Well-Trained Mind" has been a very informative read and strikes true with many of my own ideals about what a good education should be. The resource lists are amazing and those alone should be enough for anyone to by this wonderful reference material. The authors are very honest about how much effort and energy are required for home-schooling, but by the end of the book the reader is left feeling as though they could take on the world.

Joanne Scaglione, author:
The Big Squeal: A Wild, True, and Twisted Tail and teaching guide;
Bully-Proofing Children: A Practical, Hands-On Guide to Stop Bullying;
Living The Secret Everyday: My Secret Workbook

This is a must-have tool for any parent of a homeschooler or for that matter of any school-age student. Filled with great information on curriculum and strategies; I recommend it very highly.

I found this book to be very helpful in giving me the knowledge to educate my children at home. Very thorough yet I would have loved an update.Some book or reference books were out of date.

Since my daughter was a tot I have been hearing about The Well Trained Mind. I explored websites on the trivium and was scared away! My prior thinking was, "I don't want to take my time reading, understanding, thinking, etc. on such a complex school of thought". Boy was I wrong!

I bought the book and in one long sitting read Part I an IV (what applies to me) in its entirety! I perused though II and III with future anticipation of "training" my daughter in this way. I found Wise-Bauer made the complicated trivium simple to understand. I also noticed that I chose books similar to TWTM.

This book is a MUST READ if you are new to homeschooling, interested in the classical approach or just wanting to expand upon your eclectic approach to homeschooling. I can even see this book benefitting those who don't homeschool and want to enhance their child's learning in the summer months.

My suggestion: Buy the book, a highlighter and a notepad...You will be anxious to remember and organize, into your own way of thinking, the wealth of information this book has to offer. ENJOY!