Swagger 10 urgent rules for raising boys in an era of failing schools, mass joblessness, and thug culture
(2012)

Nonfiction

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Provider: hoopla

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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Gildan Audio : Made available through hoopla, 2012
EDITION
Unabridged
DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (1 audio file (480 min.)) : digital

ISBN/ISSN
9781469000657 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) MWT11212788, 1469000652 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 11212788
LANGUAGE
English
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Read by the author

"At this very moment, through no fault of their own, our boys are caught in the vortex of four powerful, insidious, often invisible forces which conspire to rob them of their future." We medicate, discipline, suspend and expel our boys from school at quadruple the rate of girls. We let double the number of boys drop out of high school than girls, and of those boys who do graduate, they are far more likely than their sisters to be illiterate, to fail to go to college, or to drop out of college if they do go. SWAGGER is a wakeup call for parents about the real world our boys inhabit right now, but it offers solutions as well. From how to teach your boy humility (the swagger anti-venom), to "making your home a reading mecca," creating an expectation of college graduation, and how to teach your boy to be critical of the media onslaught in his life, this book is also packed with research-proven, parent-tested, teacher-approved practical solutions, delivered in the author's trademark no-nonsense, often humorous, take-charge voice

Mode of access: World Wide Web

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