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

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

by Charles J. Sykes

St. Martin's Press | August 21, 2007 | Hardcover

Charles J. Sykes offers life lessons that are not included in the curriculum for most children today: honest advice about what they will encounter in the "real world" post-schooling and how their parents can help them best prepare--not with cushy self-esteem talks, but rather with honest challenges. His 50 lessons are frank, sometimes harsh, and often hilarious, including:
 #1 Life is not fair. Get used to it.
#15 Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping. They called it "opportunity."
#43 Don''t let the success of other depress you.
#48 Tell yourself the story of your life. Have a point.
 Sykes elaborates on each of his points, creating a wise, no-nonsense guide for parents to help their children help themselves. 

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Charles J. Sykes offers life lessons that are not included in the curriculum for most children today: honest advice about what they will encounter in the "real world" post-schooling and how their parents can help them best prepare--not with cushy self-esteem talks, but rather with honest challenges. His 50 lessons are frank, sometimes harsh, and often hilarious, including:
 #1 Life is not fair. Get used to it.
#15 Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping. They called it "opportunity."
#43 Don''t let the success of other depress you.
#48 Tell yourself the story of your life. Have a point.
 Sykes elaborates on each of his points, creating a wise, no-nonsense guide for parents to help their children help themselves. 

About the Author

Charles J. Sykes is the author of five previous books: A Nation of Victims, Dumbing Down Our Kids, Profscam, The End of Privacy, and The Hollow Men. His columns have appeared in numerous newspapers, including The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. A radio and television host at WTMJ in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and a senior fellow at the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute, he is married and has three children.

Hardcover

192 Pages, 6.06 x 8.04 x 0.76 in

August 21, 2007

St. Martin's Press

English


031236038X
9780312360382

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