While at BYU, she began to explore the idea of home schooling while pursuing a degree in early childhood education. At the end of the memoir, Westover is in touch with only a few family members and accepts that she needs to be away from the mountain. To date (and this article was originally posted at least two years ago), I have not received a penny in commissions. Shawn Westover (pseudonym): Westover's older brother, the second brother of the siblings, 10 years older than Tara. Drawing on activists and analysing their organisations’ mobilisation strategies, two modes of agnostic pluralism (AG) were captured: the embrace of differences and politics.

The truth will always be hard to establish and despite my similarity of circumstances I understand the viewpoint through which Educating is written – unless LaRee is able to take a fully impartial view, her’s will always be skewed by the circumstances in which she is living – a world away from those Tara now resides in. I was losing my family, and it seemed to me that there were no stories for that — no stories about what to do when loyalty to your family was somehow in conflict with loyalty to yourself.In response to her daughter’s therapy sessions, LaRee feels there’s a “high likelihood the therapist was manipulating her memories” (p. I am a retired psychiatric nurse and found the book thoroughly believable from Tars’s experience and memories.

Special thanks to Sue Larson who read both books, my review, and offered editorial insight and medical information I needed to know to better understand Educating . Dad provided for his family in spite of his mental illness, Mom and Valaree built a multimillion dollar business out of their home, Shawn/Travis was shaping up to build the dads business into an even greater success then dad had made it, and three kids earned doctorates.It is crystal clear to me that Val is the driving force behind the book Educating, and that he is controlling and manipulating LaRee, as Tara pointed out he did countless times in Educated. To those who have witnessed similar feelings and experiences, her accounts may still feel awkward and confusing. No one, based on reading these two books, will be able to discern the absolute truth about what really happened to Tara growing up.

Her parents were concerned then, and their concern continued when she married Val: “Did Val, as my family claims, drag me against my will out of the middle of the road? If it helps, I just wanted to comment that anything I witnessed personally was greatly downplayed by Tara in the book. Reading your review and a bit of Laree’s book online, she reveals herself in a much less charitable light. Like many of you, I read Tara’s memoir, Educated,a couple of years ago and re-read it right after reading LaRee’s book–in preparation for this review.I am not a member of the LDS and did not see the book as presenting all of you folks as a “bunch of kooks”. We’re just taking it in, without judgement, and with a tiny grain of salt because we both know (we are in our 60’s) that memories are … shaded? First, the public world that is largely managed by the teacher and features easily-visible lesson activities and routines.

It is also interesting that the business was built taking plants by robbing nature and now I think it is just international trade in chemicals which drives it. In an interview with The Irish Times, she said, "You can love someone and still choose to say goodbye to them, and you can miss someone every day and still be glad they're not in your life.This refers to the destruction of the planet and its people through processes that are gradual and mostly invisible(-ised).