I really appreciate your perspective, Emily. I find it a turn off when homeschoolers are so dogmatic and righteous about a specific style of homeschooling and its rules. I agree that we should expose ourselves and our children to diverse books! You inspire me with new books all the time! Thank you.
My 11 yr old loved the Wild Robot and he spent some of his money so he could get the other two that came out in that series....and this is a kid that hates to read.!! He also loved Watership Down. Now my 13 yr old didn't like any of those and only wants to read books about the war but he did read all the Harry Potter books...
I read "When the World Was Ours", it was a good book. Thanks for the recommendation. 😊 Could you maybe do a video where you explain what "twaddle" is and if you know, where the term came from?
I think there is an unfortunate tendancy lately to dismiss a lot of western classics as just books by "old white men" and things like that, and instead people assign books because they are on topics of modern social justice or simply because they aren't written by white people. In fact among secular homeschoolers it seems trendy to avoid western classics altogether. There has to be some balance between these things, but it's just a very politically polarized time so people go to extremes. A lot of older books don't share modern sensitivities, but I would argue that they are still very much worth reading and can simply be framed in their historical context. Even Roald Dahl's books have been sanitized for modern audiences. I'd rather my son read the real version.
Well said... I've been noticing that the current book recommendations on byl have all been with minority group girls and women as the protagonists.. how is this diverse? Dividing on one demographic only seems the opposite of diverse.
I really appreciate your perspective, Emily. I find it a turn off when homeschoolers are so dogmatic and righteous about a specific style of homeschooling and its rules. I agree that we should expose ourselves and our children to diverse books! You inspire me with new books all the time! Thank you.
My 11 yr old loved the Wild Robot and he spent some of his money so he could get the other two that came out in that series....and this is a kid that hates to read.!! He also loved Watership Down.
Now my 13 yr old didn't like any of those and only wants to read books about the war but he did read all the Harry Potter books...
I read "When the World Was Ours", it was a good book. Thanks for the recommendation. 😊
Could you maybe do a video where you explain what "twaddle" is and if you know, where the term came from?
I think there is an unfortunate tendancy lately to dismiss a lot of western classics as just books by "old white men" and things like that, and instead people assign books because they are on topics of modern social justice or simply because they aren't written by white people. In fact among secular homeschoolers it seems trendy to avoid western classics altogether. There has to be some balance between these things, but it's just a very politically polarized time so people go to extremes. A lot of older books don't share modern sensitivities, but I would argue that they are still very much worth reading and can simply be framed in their historical context. Even Roald Dahl's books have been sanitized for modern audiences. I'd rather my son read the real version.
Well said... I've been noticing that the current book recommendations on byl have all been with minority group girls and women as the protagonists.. how is this diverse? Dividing on one demographic only seems the opposite of diverse.