{"product_id":"9780312360382","title":"50 Rules Kids Won't Learn in School: Real World Antidotes to Feel-Good Education","description":"\u003cp\u003eCharles J. Sykes offers fifty life lessons not included in the self-esteem-laden, reality-light curriculum of most schools. Here are truths about what kids will encounter in the world post-schooling, and ideas for how parents can reclaim lost ground—-not with pep talks and touchy-feely negotiations, but with honesty and respect. Sykes's rules are frank, funny, and tough minded, including:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e#1 Life is not fair. Get used to it. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e#7 If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure, so he tends to be a bit edgier. When you screw up, he's not going to ask you how you FEEL about it. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e#15 Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping. They called it \"opportunity.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e#42 Change the oil. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e#43 Don't let the success of others depress you.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e#48 Tell yourself the story of your life. Have a point.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach rule is explored with wise, pithy examples that parents, grandparents, and teachers can use to help children help themselves succeed—-in school and out of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA few rules kids won't learn in school:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e#9 Your school may have done away with winners and losers. Life hasn't.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e#14 Looking like a slut does not empower you.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e#29 Learn to deal with hypocrisy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e#32 Television is not real life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e#38 Look people in the eye when you meet them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e#47 You are not perfect, and you don't have to be.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e#50 Enjoy this while you can.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47024282697968,"sku":"9780312360382","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780312360382_p0.jpg?v=1763760189","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780312360382","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}