PalmTree Pundit wrote about a book On Her Wish List: 50 Rules Kids Won't Learn in School: Real-World Antidotes to Feel-Good Education by Charles Sykes. Here's the book's web site. Anne learned of the book from Michelle Malkin who posted about it yesterday.
Here are a sample of the rules:
#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.
The book is coming out in a couple weeks. It looks very worthwhile. I've asked my local library to get it. I'll skim it and probably buy it.
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Some of those have been circulating as a short list for years. My mom had an Ann Landers column with 10 or so on the refrigerator for years.
ReplyDeleteI would be interested to see how Mr. Sykes expands on them.
I look forward seeing the book too.
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