Help your boys succeed the essential guide for parents /
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[London] ; New York :
Continuum International Pub. Group,
c2008.
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| Series: | Help your child succeed
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| Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10427119 |
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.