Julie Cook

Unvaccinated, Homeschooled, and Tv-free: It's Not Just for Fanatics and Zealots Julie Cook

For years, the homeschooling, TV-free, and anti-vaccine movements have been regarded by most as lifestyles for fanatics and zealots. Mass media has continued to portray families who choose these lifestyles as outsiders and oddballs, even though homeschooling has been growing at a rate of 7%-12% per year, and most homeschooling families are in the upper middle class with both parents having advanced degrees. Unvaccinated, Homeschooled, and TV-Free: It's Not Just for Fanatics and Zealots, will show you why it is so important that you think for yourself, research for yourself, and have the courage to believe that you are right. This is a book for educators, parents, parents-to-be, and anyone who cares about the health, well-being, and future of children. In most ways, Julie Cook lives a typical mainstream life, complete with high-tech career, multiple degrees and a suburban lifestyle. But, she's making non-mainstream decisions for her daughter. In this book, she describes her decision-making process, and the facts that led her to these alternative choices. In the end she says, "I never care that people arrive at the same conclusions that I did. I only care that they personally put in a level of effort that corresponds to the importance of the decision."