Description: HOW CHILDREN SUCCEED: GRIT, CURIOSITY, & HIDDEN POWER OF CHARACTER by PAUL TOUGH ABOUT THE BOOK: “How do our experiences in childhood make us the adults we become? It is one of the great human questions, the theme of countless novels, biographies, and memoirs; the subject of several centuries’ worth of philosophical and psychological treatises. This process — the experience of growing up — can appear at times to be predictable, even mechanical, and at other times to be arbitrary and capricious; we’ve all encountered grown men and women who seem trapped in a destiny preordained by their childhoods, and we’ve all met people who seem to have almost miraculously transcended harsh beginnings. Until recently, though, there has never been a serious attempt to use the tools of science to peel back the mysteries of childhood, to trace, through experiment and analysis, how the experiences of our early years connect to outcomes in adulthood. That is changing, with the efforts of this new generation of researchers. The premise behind the work is simple, if radical: We haven’t managed to solve these problems because we’ve been looking for solutions in the wrong places. If we want to improve the odds for children in general, and for poor children in particular, we need to approach childhood anew, to start over with some fundamental questions about how parents affect their children; how human skills develop; how character is formed. At its core, this book is about an ambitious and far-reaching campaign to solve some of the most pervasive mysteries of life: Who succeeds and who fails? Why do some children thrive while others lose their way? And what can any of us do to steer an individual child — or a whole generation of children — away from failure and toward success?” A REVIEW: In this book, the New York Times journalist Paul Tough investigates one of the most interesting questions: how do children succeed? We read this book with great interest, as this is exactly the topic we’ve been interested in for ages. And guess what? This book is a great summary of our very own discoveries ☺ If you are a parent or an educator, who believes that academic knowledge and IQ are not the only contributors to success in life, this book is for you. Drawing on the cutting-edge research and success stories of schools that helped disadvantaged children succeed, Paul Tough shows how we can help every child build character strengths to flourish in life. The book is packed with science-based ideas and is a must-read for every parent who cares about their child’s future. Hardcover 256 Pages Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE All items are shipped using recycled materials whenever possible
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Subject Area: Education, Psychology, Social Science
Publication Name: How Children Succeed
Item Length: 9 in
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Subject: Educational Policy & Reform / General, Decision-Making & Problem Solving, Sociology / General, Developmental / Child, Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Early Childhood (Incl. Preschool & Kindergarten)
Publication Year: 2012
Type: Textbook
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Item Height: 0.9 in
Author: Paul Tough
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Item Weight: 17.8 Oz
Item Width: 6 in
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
