Help your boys succeed : the essential guide for parents /: the essential guide for parents. (©2008)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Gary Wilson.
• Other Names: Wilson, Gary B
• 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.
• Publisher Details: [London] New York : Network Continuum
• Publication Date: 2008
• Copyright Date: 2008
• Extent: 1 online resource (110 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 649/.132; Boys; Success in children; Self-esteem in children; Child rearing; Parenting; Parent and child; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Parenting -- General; Boys; Child rearing; Parent and child; Parenting; Self-esteem in children; Success in children; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781855396630; 1855396637
• Related ISBNs: 9781855394490; 1855394499
• Notes: Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.