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nicolen17's review against another edition
4.0
I had mixed feelings about this book for the first chapter or two— I didn’t agree with the ideas being presented. But as the book progressed I liked more and more of what was said. It’s a great theory and I took a lot of things from it.
aprilmay11's review against another edition
3.0
Good book. At the beginning I was copying everything down and taking notes. Maybe I got tired because by the end I stopped. I bought the book so I can go back and look over the sections at the end of the chapters. It summed up everything really nice and said: what to do tonight. That was really helpful and such a good idea. This had stuff about college and my girls are not there yet but will be. I also copied and pasted some things to quote to some of my students’ parents! Good stuff.
This was a good one:
Mark Twain said, “When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I couldn’t stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
This was a good one:
Mark Twain said, “When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I couldn’t stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
shadyjones's review against another edition
challenging
hopeful
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
4.5
jaraka's review against another edition
4.0
Thoroughly enjoyed the first half. The second half is specifically about SATs and the like so I didn’t finish it.
suereadsslow's review against another edition
challenging
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
3.5
carolynf's review against another edition
4.0
Great advice for parents of children ages 8 to 18, plus some bonus advice regarding "failure to launch" kids. Basically home should be a place of calm and support. The college you go to and whether you go to college at all does not matter for long term success and happiness, while piling on AP courses and extracurriculars and using caffeine to get by on four hours of sleep can mess up the brain for life. Kids need to be able to make informed choices about their own lives, but parents should not feel obligated to pay for things that kids are misusing, such as cell phones and video games.