Publications - Books
Books by Mike Fortune Wood
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Can't Go, Won't Go: An Alternative Approach to School Refusal
School refusal, sometimes called 'school phobia', is a complex and often contentious issue affecting rising numbers of children. Coping with this issue can tear families apart and leave lasting affects on children.
In "Can't Go, Won't Go" Mike Fortune-Wood looks at the scale of the problem and how families are treated by a range of statutory authorities.Interspersed with moving accounts from families who have struggled with school refusal, sometimes over a decade or more, this important and ground-breaking book sign-posts the need for better communication and strategies from service providers from schools to psychologists.
It suggests that the current trend to either medicalise or demonise children who refuse to go to school will only add to society's problems as well as damaging the individuals concerned. Fortune-Wood goes on to document an alternative approach; that of removing children from school to home educate them, suggesting that far from leading to disaster (as professionals often predict) this can become a life enhancing decission.
"Can't Go, Won't Go" (£10.00 incl. postage & packing)
Can't Go Won't Go - also available as a Kindle book
The Face of Home-Based Education, Part 1: Who, Why and How
The demographics, choice and methodology of home education, who home educates, why do they do so and what kind of educational philosophy informs the provision of education in the home?
"The Face of Home-Based Education, Part 1" (£10.00 incl. postage & packing)
The Face of Home-Based Education, Part 2: Numbers, Support & Special Needs
How many home educators are there, how do home educators obtain support and access services. What attitudes home educators hold regarding local authorities and why and finally the experiences of families who home educate special needs children?
"The Face of Home-Based Education, Part 2" (£10.00 incl. postage & packing)
All of the above 3 books (£27.00 incl. postage & packing)
Books by Jan Fortune Wood
Winning Parent, Winning Child: Parenting so Everbody Wins
Every parent who has ever faced conflict with his or her child wonders if there isn't a better way. Most parents try everything, but nearly all will still be in search of something else. This is that something: an unconventional, but completely practical way for parents and children to live together without the need for compulsion and force. In short, a lifestyle in which everybody wins.
The book offers a new way of living with our children. It starts from the idea that we don't need to compel our children or be in conflict with our children and nor do we need to be self-sacrificing doormats. Quite simply, we can all get what we want and live well together. It is is user freindly, full of examples and helps you to implement this different, but acheivable approach to family life.
Whether our children are newborns or teenagers, the relationship between parents and children is one of the important we ever have. 'Winning Parent, Winning Child' gives a refreshing perspective no matter what our particular parenting challenges. From raising boys to handling toddlers, from parenting hyperactive children to sibling rivalry, from decisions about TV, video games to how we keep our children safe and still help them get what they want, you will find straightforward illustrations of how to engage in optimistic parenting and how to find new solutions to the perennial problems of family life. This is real world parenting as you have never before imagined it, set out at in an engaging way.
If you want to explore how to raise children who, far from being uncontrolled monsters, will be moral people on their own journeys of self fulfilment, with a deep sense of trust in the adults who are raising them, then this is the book you need. The book grounds parenting in our present day to life; finding solutions to today's problems as the way to build a lifetime of consent and solutions.
"Winning Parent, Winning Child" (£11.00 inc.)
