50 Rules Kids Won't Learn in School: Real-World Antidotes to Feel-Good Education -Hardcover 🆕
50 Rules Kids Won't Learn in School Real-World Antidotes to Feel-Good Education -By- CHARLES J. SYKES Help your children gain the real-world skills they won't learn in school. This book offers straightforward advice on how to build successful habits and attitudes they can use in life. 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 b