"Two veteran home educators, mother and daughter, explain step by step how to give your child a comprehensive, academically rigorous education at home. Newly revised, the book uses the classical pattern of education - the trivium - which organizes learning around the maturing capacity of the child's mind: the elementary school ""grammar stage,"" the middle school ""logic stage,"" and the high school ""rhetorical stage."" It includes detailed book lists with ordering information, along with up-to-date resource listings, internet links, and contacts."