I have mixed feelings on WTM. When I first read it, I was just starting out homeschooling a five year old. The idea that he was in the "parrot" stage and needed to spend a lot of time regurgitating information fed to him didn't sit well with me. That wasn't who my son was at five, or even at two. He was making observations and asking thoughtful questions from the time he was a toddler.
I do use SOTW, which is the history program written by one of the authors of WTM. I don't use it exactly the way they recommend, but my kids enjoy it and we've recently come full circle and restarted the ancient world. I really like the idea of learning history chronologically. It just makes SO much more sense than the way I was taught history in school. Even my youngest is fascinated with history, and she "gets" how one event leads to another.
The coolest thing about homeschooling is that we have lots of choices, and we're not boxed in a forced to use a program that doesn't work well for our child, though it may work well for most!
