Connor Boyack has 16 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 3 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.8★ across 10 ratings. The most-rated is Passion-Driven Education: How to Use Your Child's Interests to Ignite a Lifelong Love of Learning.
The Tuttle Twins Learn About the Law
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Children are often taught that government protects our life, liberty, and property, but could it be true that some laws actually allow people to hurt us and take are things? Join Ethan and Emily Tuttle as they learn about property, pirates, and plunder. With the help of their neighbor Fred, the twins will need to figure out what they can do to stop the bad guys in the government. Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850) was a French political economist and classical liberal who wrote The Law, upon which this book is based. Through engaging dialogue, young listeners will be led to understand the principles of liberty and the proper role of government.
©2014 Connor Boyack (P)2017 Connor Boyack
Passion-Driven Education: How to Use Your Child's Interests to Ignite a Lifelong Love of Learning
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Do you need parenting advice on how to inspire your child to love learning? Whether you homeschool, or send your kids to public or private school, this is essential listening for your situation. Why? Because schooling has become a disaster. Your child's interests and uniqueness are disregarded, and structured curriculum and standards like Common Core place them on a conveyor belt that treats all children the same. This system crushes a child's curiosity. Your child deserves better! There is a better way: one that ensures your child sees learning as a joy and provides you, the parent, with a much less stressful way to educate and empower your son or daughter. In this book, Connor Boyack shares the exciting philosophy and empowering day-to-day steps involved in passion-driven education. A child's curiosity and natural desire to learn are like a tiny flame, easily extinguished unless it's protected and given fuel. This book will help you as a parent both protect that flame of curiosity, and supply it with the fuel necessary to make it burn bright throughout your child's life. Let's ignite our children's natural love of learning!
©2016 Connor Boyack (P)2016 Connor Boyack
The Tuttle Twins and the Creature from Jekyll Island
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What kind of creature can steal your money? Join Ethan and Emily Tuttle in their exciting third adventure, as they uncover the curious mystery of how a powerful creature is stealing their grandparents' hard-earned savings, and how the twins are also being controlled by the same creature - without even knowing it!
©2015 Connor Boyack (P)2017 Connor Boyack
The Tuttle Twins and the Golden Rule
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The Golden Rule - a summer camp adventure like no other! Ethan and Emily Tuttle embark on their first summer camp adventure where competing teams turn into rivals, but Chief Ron helps the twins and their teammates learn the dangers of aggression, revenge, and blowback - and why peace and friendship are important!
©2017 Connor Boyack (P)2017 Connor Boyack
The Tuttle Twins and the Miraculous Pencil
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Until now, freedom-minded parents have had little to no educational material to teach their children the concepts of liberty. The Tuttle Twins series of audiobooks helps children learn about political and economic principles in a fun and engaging manner. With fun stories, your children will follow Ethan and Emily as they learn about liberty! Grab your copy of the second audiobook in the brand new Tuttle Twins series - and help the children in your life learn how the free market works!
©2014 Connor Boyack (P)2017 Connor Boyack
Feardom
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What do history's most notorious despots have in common with many of the flag-waving, patriotic politicians of our day? Both groups rise to power through the exploitation of fear. Sometimes the fear derives from a pre-existing threat. At other times, crises are created or intensified to invoke a sense of panic and anxiety where none previously existed. This pattern is as predictable as it is destructive. The end result is the same: a loss of liberty. Policies that are costly, oppressive, and harmful are supported by people who abandon any interest in freedom or personal responsibility in hopes of feeling safe. Manufactured fear, with its negative impact on liberty, is a societal plague. There have been widespread casualties. We need an antidote. Feardom offers its readers a much-needed immunization.
©2014 Connor Boyack (P)2014 Connor Boyack
The Tuttle Twins and Their Spectacular Show Business
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While most people prefer the relative safety of working at a job for somebody else, others are more interested in the independence, excitement, and creative problem solving that are all part of starting your own business and being an entrepreneur. But as Ethan and Emily Tuttle learn in their latest adventure, being an entrepreneur isn't easy, especially when you re up against some tough competition. Join the twins as they dive into the ins and outs of becoming business owners, solving the many problems that pop up along the way!
©2018 Connor Boyack (P)2018 Connor Boyack
The Tuttle Twins and the Education Vacation
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Is school the best way to get an education? Ethan and Emily Tuttle have spent several years in school being graded on the quality of their work. But after hearing an award-winning teacher discuss some problems with schooling and share a vision for how children are best educated, the Tuttle family decides to embark on a new learning adventure. Longtime educator John Taylor Gatto shares ideas with the Tuttle family from his book The Underground History of American Education. As they soon learn, education works best when we have the freedom to discover our interests and develop our abilities, rather than being shaped into what somebody else wants.
©2019 Connor Boyack (P)2019 Connor Boyack
The Tuttle Twins and the Fate of the Future
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Should we coerce others to get what we want? The history of the world is a tale of some people bossing others around, but brave thinkers have always offered ideas for a better future where people use persuasion instead. After Ethan and Emily watch a dystopian film portraying a future full of coercion, they realize they need to learn how to avoid it. Enter Murray Rothbard, author of Anatomy of the State, whose book teaches the Tuttle twins that the fate of the future and all of humanity depends on thinking of ways we can work together peacefully to build a better society without relying on coercion.
©2018 Connor Boyack (P)2018 Connor Boyack
The Tuttle Twins and the Food Truck Fiasco!
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The oldest economic battle is repeating itself! Disruptive businesses must fight against their crony competitors - the ones with friends in government who try and protect them from innovative upstarts. Ethan and Emily Tuttle witness this battle firsthand with their food truck friends as they embark on a campaign to win public support and overturn the laws that shut them down. Recommended listening age: 5-11.
©2016 Connor Boyack (P)2017 Connor Boyack
The Tuttle Twins and the Road to Surfdom
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History abounds with examples of government officials making decisions, well-intentioned or otherwise, that harm others. Unfortunately, these unintended consequences are never anticipated, and rarely considered once they occur. As the Tuttle Twins find in their latest adventure, central planning can ruin people's lives. Nobel Prize winning economist FA Hayek's famous book The Road to Serfdom comes to life in this edition, showing that when people get what they wish for, they often get much more than they bargained. Listen as Ethan and Emily investigate a new road built to take travelers to a beach named Surfdom - and the disruption it brings to the entire community. Recommended listening age: 5-11.
©2016 Connor Boyack (P)2017 Connor Boyack
Lessons from a Lemonade Stand
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There’s nothing quite like seeing a child’s entrepreneurial endeavor be shut down by police officers or bureaucrats. But while that child’s hope for a quick buck may be dashed, their experience provides them - and you, through this audiobook - invaluable insights into government and law. Are all laws legitimate? And does winning a popularity contest (also called an election) give somebody the authority to boss you around? What if the government outlaws something you need to do? Is it okay to break the law if doing what’s right has been classified as wrong? Surprising, engaging, and filled with examples, Lessons from a Lemonade Stand offers essential answers for teenagers and adults looking to better understand the world we live in. "The ideas of freedom can heal our world and improve our lives. Lessons from a Lemonade Stand provides an ample supply of this much-needed medicine. My prescription for the rising generation? Read this book!" - Lawrence W. Reed, president of the Foundation for Economic Education "Take all the sweet platitudes you’ve ever heard about government - these wise public servants are innocently pursuing the common good! Government gets its just powers from our consent! - roll them into a ball, and throw them away. In their place, read Lessons from a Lemonade Stand, which contains more plain truth about the nature of government than any student ever heard in what we laughingly call our institutions of higher learning." - Tom Woods, New York Times best-selling author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History
©2017 Connor Boyack (P)2017 Connor Boyack
Christ Versus Caesar: Two Masters, One Choice
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No man can serve two masters, yet both Christ and Caesar demand our allegiance. The prince of this world, and the political institutions he supports and controls, entice us to rely on the arm of flesh as a means of solving our problems. But God seems to want something different to us and his commandments carry political implications that we ignore at our own spiritual peril.
©2020 Cedar Fort Inc. (P)2020 Cedar Fort Inc.
The Tuttle Twins and the Messed Up Market
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Why do people make the choices they do? Now that they’ve made some money, Ethan and Emily Tuttle begin to wonder how they can put it to good use and earn even more. So the idea of a Children’s Entrepreneur Market is born, which can help them find other kids who might want to borrow their money to build their small business. But as the twins soon learn — thanks to the ideas from Human Action by Ludwig von Mises — this is risky business. People have different incentives for why they make the choices they do, and certain choices can cause their market to become messed up!
©2020 Connor Boyack (P)2020 Connor Boyack
The Tuttle Twins and the Search for Atlas
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In a world filled with consumers, what happens if the producers give up and leave? And how can people better practice personal responsibility and not have a sense of entitlement about the things they think they deserve? Ethan and Emily Tuttle tackle these questions in their latest adventure, this time as clowns in the visiting circus. Incorporating ideas from Ayn Rand's hit novel Atlas Shrugged, this book shows how things begin falling apart when socialism creeps in. Join the clown twins as they try to figure out where Atlas went and more importantly, why he left.
©2017 Connor Boyack (P)2017 Connor Boyack
Skip College
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Tens of millions of Americans owe a combined $1.5 trillion in debt for student loans. Much of this staggering expense has been unnecessary. Attending college is more of a tradition - a cultural rite of passage - than a necessary step toward a successful career, thus not justifying its steep cost. As countless entrepreneurs and creative hustlers have shown, there is a path to success outside institutions of so-called higher learning. Allow us to show you the way. Filled with practical advice and action steps for teenagers and young adults, Skip College is a must-listen for those looking to launch their career.
©2019 Connor Boyack (P)2019 Connor Boyack