Dayna Martin

I LOVE the ideas and general message of this book. It's very inspirational and makes the radical unschooling lifestyle seem very natural and doable. Dayna is a great inspiration to me and I think this book should be read by as many parents as possible.

That said, I have a few constructive criticisms. First and really foremost, this book NEEDS a better editor. There were quite a few spelling mistakes that caught my eye and some punctuation that needs to be cleaned up. This isn't a blog - it's a published document and needs to be professional to be taken seriously by many people. I would hate for people to disregard the important messages contained within because of poor editing.

My husband is having trouble reading this book as a result. We're both fairly well-trained writers (in terms of spelling, punctuation, editing) and it is sometimes painful to get through some of the writing. I wanted to take a red pen to it - NOT because I disagreed with the message/content, but because I wanted to it be more clearly stated, more eloquently delivered! I wanted to add semi-colons and rearrange some of the statements for better flow.

I would love to see more published by Dayna - I just hope that next time she gets more people to preview her work and offer suggestions/corrections.… (mer)