50 Rules Kids Won't Learn in School: Real-World Antidotes to Feel-Good Education by Charlie Sykes

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SKU: MST04161
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  • Synopsis:
  • Charles J. Sykes offers fifty life lessons not included in the self-esteem-laden, reality-light curriculum of most schools. Here are truths about what kids will encounter in the world post-schooling, and ideas for how parents can reclaim lost ground---not with pep talks and touchy-feely negotiations, but with honesty and respect. Sykes's rules are frank, funny, and tough minded, including:
  • #1 Life is not fair. Get used to it.
  • #7 If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure, so he tends to be a bit edgier. When you screw up, he's not going to ask you how you FEEL about it.
  • #15 Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping. They called it "opportunity."
  • #42 Change the oil.
  • #43 Don't let the success of others depress you.
  • #48 Tell yourself the story of your life. Have a point.
  • Each rule is explored with wise, pithy examples that parents, grandparents, and teachers can use to help children help themselves succeed---in school and out of it.
  • A few rules kids won't learn in school:
  • #9 Your school may have done away with winners and losers. Life hasn't.
  • #14 Looking like a slut does not empower you.
  • #29 Learn to deal with hypocrisy.
  • #32 Television is not real life.
  • #38 Look people in the eye when you meet them.
  • #47 You are not perfect, and you don't have to be.
  • #50 Enjoy this while you can.





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