{"product_id":"50-rules-kids-wont-learn-in-school-real-world-antidotes-to-feel-good-education-9780312360382","title":"50 Rules Kids Won't Learn in School: Real-World Antidotes to Feel-Good Education","description":"\u003cp\u003eCharles 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: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e#1 Life is not fair. Get used to it. \u003cbr\u003e#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. \u003cbr\u003e#15 Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping. They called it \"opportunity.\"\u003cbr\u003e#42 Change the oil. \u003cbr\u003e#43 Don't let the success of others depress you.\u003cbr\u003e#48 Tell yourself the story of your life. Have a point. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEach 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA few rules kids won't learn in school: \u003cbr\u003e#9 Your school may have done away with winners and losers. Life hasn't.\u003cbr\u003e#14 Looking like a slut does not empower you.\u003cbr\u003e#29 Learn to deal with hypocrisy.\u003cbr\u003e#32 Television is not real life.\u003cbr\u003e#38 Look people in the eye when you meet them.\u003cbr\u003e#47 You are not perfect, and you don't have to be.\u003cbr\u003e#50 Enjoy this while you can.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharles J. Sykes is the author of five previous books: \u003ci\u003eA Nation of Victims, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eDumbing Down Our Kids, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eProfscam, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe End of Privacy, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Hollow Men\u003c\/i\u003e. His columns have appeared in numerous newspapers, including \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50704800579858,"sku":"9780312360382","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ecbb563b-b80e-4788-ade7-40ddcdd9a848.jpg?v=1734479827","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/50-rules-kids-wont-learn-in-school-real-world-antidotes-to-feel-good-education-9780312360382","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}