Educating: A Memoir

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She worked the family business — a dangerous scrap salvage yard where the children dodged metal and teetered perilously on beams and forklifts.

As a mother, I would also feel protective of a child, like Travis, who made many mistakes in his youth.

As of the September 13, 2020, issue of The New York Times, the book had spent 132 consecutive weeks on the Hardcover Non-Fiction Best Seller list. In a lecture at Utah Valley University in 2020, Tara acknowledged a place for her family’s memories: “My version doesn’t have to be the only version, and I’m really comfortable with the idea that there are other ways of looking at it. Homeschool is only hard with the first one because after that, you’ve got the older children to help to teach the others.

One quote from the end of the book reads: "I have no expectation as to what proportion of those who read this memoir will believe what is written.Our mother frequently encouraged me from a young age to prepare to attend university classes by the time I was sixteen.