Lesson One the ABCs of Life - The Skills We Need but Were Never Taught

Zusatztext Marian Wright Edelman president! Children's Defense Fund This book is a wonderful tool for helping to prepare children to succeed in life. Every child -- and many adults -- can learn something from its valuable principles. Informationen zum Autor Jon Oliver is a certified teacher who has spent thirty years developing Lesson One. He has frequently appeared in the national media and made presentations at conferences and workshops around the country. His school-reform efforts have earned him commendations from the White House. He lives in Ventura, California. Klappentext In this step-by-step guide, Oliver draws on inspirational stories from his own life and 30 years of teaching experience to show parents and others how they can put his program to work to begin helping children navigate through life. Chapter One: Discovering Lesson One "With the world spinning out of control, how does your life become your own?" Jon Oliver asked me that question one day some years ago; it has resonated in my mind ever since. We live as members of a society and a culture, but we are individuals, with lives of our own making. Every day we face the challenges and the joys and the difficulties of living, working, studying, and playing with others. How do you deal with people filled with rage? How do you stop beating yourself up for failure when you know you´ve done your best? How do you handle the everyday pressures of work and home? How do you learn to believe in yourself and work out your problems with thinking, instead of turbulent raw emotion? How do you handle life´s challenges and help children handle them as well? Where do you find the answers to these questions? Schools teach reading, writing, and arithmetic, but what about reality? What about life? If you don´t learn about life´s demands at home or at school, then how can your life become your own? There´s an answer to these questions: Lesson One. This unique program presents children and adults with a sequence of skills that change their lives and, someday, will change the world. These are skills, among them self-control, self-confidence, responsibility, thinking and problem solving, and cooperation, that we all need to be productive and happy. Most of us understand intuitively that we need these skills, but not all of us learn how to acquire and apply these skills. In this book is the solution. Lesson One: The ABCs of Life is a practical, understandable, sequential guide for adults and kids that provides a time-tested program that has already changed the lives of thousands of children, teachers, and parents around the country. I first discovered Jon´s work at a time when the country was in turmoil over youth violence, shortly after the attacks at Columbine High School. The topic of conversation at watercoolers and coffee machines around the country was the same: What can we do about our kids? Most people thought there was no solution, that our nation´s students were spiraling helplessly out of control. The prominent attorney Ty Cobb -- best known for his involvement in high-profile Washington cases -- wrote a poignant essay in the wake of the Columbine shootings, which asked, "How did we get so distracted and divided? Why are there so many guns and so few good public schools?" This book tries to address these issues and change our society for the better. As you read on, you will see that the lack of some basic skills can create enormous problems for individuals and for society. Without the ABCs of Life, our society´s problems will only continue to grow. One night, while listening to National Public Radio, I heard about Lesson One. I´ve heard a lot of explanations and prescriptions, but Lesson One seemed to be a unique voice, advocating a novel approach to address the underlying causes of the crisis in our culture. In his interview, Jon spoke about the need to begin teaching childr...

Product details

• Authors: Jon Oliver, Jon/ Ryan Oliver, Michael Ryan
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2004
• EAN: 9780743237925
• ISBN: 978-0-7432-3792-5
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 133 mm x 210 mm x 19 mm
• Subject: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family