Help your boys succeed the essential guide for parents /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wilson, Gary B.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [London] ; New York : Continuum International Pub. Group, c2008.
Series:Help your child succeed
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.