Help your boys succeed : the essential guide for parents / Gary Wilson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilson, Gary B.

Series:

Help Your Child to Succeed

Help your child succeed

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Boys.

Success in children.

Self-esteem in children.

Child rearing.

Parenting.

Parent and child.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (111 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[London] ; New York : Continuum International Pub. Group, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

At least once a year, around the time of examination results, the papers are full of stories of how boys are underachieving in comparison to girls. While arousing the curiosity, and often deeply troubling the parents of boys, the press, and indeed the government, rarely offers more than the 'laddish culture' or 'anti social behaviour' as the root cause. Parents deserve and need to know the full range of reasons why boys are underachieving and, fundamentally, what they can do to help prevent disaffection and underachievement in their boys. This highly informative and highly practical book conta

Contents:

The barriers to boys' achievement and how parents can help boys to break through them

Too much pressure at pre-school

Lack of independence

Boys starting school linguistically less developed

Physiological needs not met

Negative attitudes to writing

Limited interest in reading

Inability to plan and prepare effectively

Peer pressure

The laddish culture

Emotional ingelligence issues

A mismatch between how he is expected to work and his preferred way of working

Poor reflection skills

Low self-esteem and limiting self-beliefs

Lack of positive male role models

Let's hear it from the boys

Homework

Revision - Coursework

Aspirations

Boys can be turned around

How schools are responding to the problem.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-282-87726-7

9786612877261

1-85539-663-7

OCLC:

682540902