Help your boys succeed
Wilson, Gary B.
Help your boys succeed the essential guide for parents / [electronic resource] : Gary Wilson. - [London] ; New York : Continuum International Pub. Group, c2008. - 110 p. : ill. - Help your child succeed .
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Boys.
Success in children.
Self-esteem in children.
Child rearing.
Parenting.
Parent and child.
Electronic books.
HQ775 / .W55 2008eb
649/.132
Help your boys succeed the essential guide for parents / [electronic resource] : Gary Wilson. - [London] ; New York : Continuum International Pub. Group, c2008. - 110 p. : ill. - Help your child succeed .
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Boys.
Success in children.
Self-esteem in children.
Child rearing.
Parenting.
Parent and child.
Electronic books.
HQ775 / .W55 2008eb
649/.132