Brain, Child Magazine Offers Insider's Look at Homeschooling

HARRISONBURG, Virginia — June 2001 — According to the U.S. Department of Education, the number of children being homeschooled doubled, perhaps even tripled, during the last decade. At an estimated 1.9 million children, homeschooling isn't just for the extreme right wing anymore. In an in-depth feature in the Summer 2001 issue of Brain, Child: The Magazine for Thinking Mothers, reporter Heide Aungst delves into the lives of women who homeschool. "Watching homeschooler Judy Schenk move in a burst of energy, structuring, teaching, controlling the day, I'm overcome with the same feeling I get watching Martha Stewart," she writes. "Could I ever do anything Martha does? I think not. Could I do what Judy does?" To find the answer, Aungst uncovers why and how homeschoolers take on their children's education.

Other must-read pieces in Brain, Child's Summer Issue: Parenting 'zine editor Ayun Halliday's hilarious essay on her family's "complex relationship to amputation": circumcision, declawing, and her daughter's extra thumb. Beth Belmont and Charlie von Simson debate the merits of plunking the kids in front of the TV. And in an exclusive excerpt from her new novel Back When We Were Grownups, Pulitzer Prizer winner Anne Tyler introduces us to an unforgettable woman "who discovered she had turned into the wrong person."

Brain, Child is the only literary magazine dedicated to motherhood. Contributors have included Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jane Smiley, best-selling author Barbara Kingsolver, and acclaimed writers Alice Hoffman and Susan Cheever. Brain, Child was nominated one of the nation's Best New Magazines in the Utne Reader's 2000 Annual Alternative Press Awards, a category whose past winners include Doubletake and McSweeney's.

Brain, Child is published quarterly. It is available at Barnes & Noble, Superstands, WholeFoods Markets and independent bookstores around the country as well as by subscription. Ordering information and selected essays are available on the web.




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