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My Kid's An Honor Student, Your Kid's A Loser: The Pushy Parent's Guide To Raising The Perfect Child
From Mozart played to the womb to post-toddler tutoring for SATs, today's parents are obsessed with creating super kids. In My Kid's an Honor Student, Your Kid's a Loser, best-selling author Ralph Schoenstein blends sharp observation, memories of his own offbeat parenting experience, incredulous reporting, and uproarious flights of fancy to explore this absurd trend. He st...more
Paperback, 192 pages
Published
April 3rd 2003
by Da Capo Press
(first published April 2003)
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The author, a grandpa, visits several academic situations where the teachers aspire to jump start success via education from pregnancy through pre-school for pushy parents. The book is humorous throughout, often surreal, and quite scary too as parents project their hopes and fears onto their kids.
The author goes on a few tangents that weren't very relevent. Though he raises very good points - some being humorous. This one took me a while to finish, mainly because I plan on being a push parent :D Thanks to this book however, things are put into perspective.
Enjoyed the book. It is a work of humor with truth's built in
Debby Antill
marked it as to-read
LuAnn
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