Parent dealing with past school issues
Karen
A friend of mine was reading our blog and asked me if I could recommend reading he could do to help him get past some feelings of inferiority he has, due to poor school performance as a child and young adult. He fears that he pushes his daughters too hard because of his own issues related to never doing well enough in school. I don't know where to direct him. He would be most interested in books or articles. Maybe later he would consider reading on this list, but I doubt he would embrace that now.
Meredith
I'd offer him Holt - How Children Fail might be a good place to start, since he has some healing to do around school performance.
He might also find Gatto's Seven Lesson Schoolteacher soothing (or infuriating):
http://www.cantrip.org/gatto.html
If he likes that he can go on to Dumbing Us Down by the same author, but I'd start with the essay - it's a good synopsis of all things Gatto.
Another book he might like is Frank Smith's The Book of Learning and Forgetting.
---Meredith
"Karen" <semajrak@...> wrote:
He might also find Gatto's Seven Lesson Schoolteacher soothing (or infuriating):
http://www.cantrip.org/gatto.html
If he likes that he can go on to Dumbing Us Down by the same author, but I'd start with the essay - it's a good synopsis of all things Gatto.
Another book he might like is Frank Smith's The Book of Learning and Forgetting.
---Meredith
"Karen" <semajrak@...> wrote:
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> A friend of mine was reading our blog and asked me if I could recommend reading he could do to help him get past some feelings of inferiority he has, due to poor school performance as a child and young adult. He fears that he pushes his daughters too hard because of his own issues related to never doing well enough in school. I don't know where to direct him. He would be most interested in books or articles. Maybe later he would consider reading on this list, but I doubt he would embrace that now.
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