and guess what? It happens to be OUR local school district; a FAR CRY from the "take the least line of resistance" put EVERYBODY in special ed classes school district that the BM lives in and the skids go to:
look at this reading list that our local SD asks parents to read!!! A breath of fresh air in this permissive drenched attitude:
Recommended Reading for Parents
RECOMMENDED BOOKS FOR UNDERSTANDING TODAY’S CHILDREN
AND
BEING THE PARENTS THEY NEED
Laying Down The Law, by Ruth Peters
The Epidemic – The Rot of American Culture, Absentee and Permissive Parenting, and the Resultant Plague of Joyless, Selfish Children, by Robert Shaw
The Good Teen – Rescuing Adolescence from the Myths of the Storm and Stress Years, by Richard M. Learner
Ready or Not – What Happens When We Treat Children as Small Adults, by Kay S. Hymowitz
Generation Me – Why Today’s Young Americans are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled – And More Miserable Than Ever Before, by Jean M. Twenge
Your Children Are Under Attack – How Popular Culture Is Destroying Your Kid’s Values, And How You Can Protect Them, by Jim Taylor
Buzzed – The Straight Forward Facts About the Most Used and Abused Drugs from Alcohol to Ecstasy, By Kuhn, Swartzwelder, and Wilson
Growing Up Too Fast – Practical Parenting Advice Based on a Survey of More Than 5,400 Kids, by Sylvia Rimm
The New Parent Power, by John Rosemond
Ex-Etiquette For Parents – Good Behavior After Divorce or Separation, by Jan Ford and Sharyle Jupe
bwa ha ha
I sent this reading list to the school principal at skids SD AND the school psychiatrist who wants to claim that SD9 is "learning disabled" b/c BM doesn't make her do her homework/classwork and plops her in front of the tv instead of going over her classwork after dinner.
also i sent a letter to the school staff, the school board and the board of education that BM is committing PAS and this could be the reason why SD is failing in school.
You are my hero
Crayon!! please let us know what response you get if any!
"Fortune favors the brave" - Virgil
awesome
thanks for the list! I WISH all schools supported this literature.
BTW
I got a very nice letter back from the school principal thanking me and she hopes that "all parents would take this advice"
I see you didn't have my book on here!
In the Shelter of Each Other- Rebuilding Our Families.
It's older but really wonderful! I finished it last night and am on a mission to enlighten everyone as to who's attacking us. Not the BM's - not the other teens- all of those are symptoms of a greater problem. The disintegration in our culture of community and family support.
Peace, love, and red wine
sounds like a good book
i basically cut and pasted the list that was up on our local SD's site so that's where i got the original list from.
um, how many of those are good for toddlers
ok, so it sounds like the list targest teens/preteens. Have you read any of them and do you know if any of them are good for all ages or have sections that target toddlers. SD is growing up and becoming very independent. She loves the word no (my sister was like that) and is incredibly stubborn.
I guess the hitch is that even if we read the book, there's the bm, and all grandparents and anyone else who takes part in any form of parenting. I feel sorry for SD because whatever rules we enforce here may not be enforced at home, and even if they are enforced by BM, its pretty unlikely that they're enforced by her "Other" grandparents (SD gave them that name!) when bm is at work. My BF and I are living at his parents' right now and even if He would be willing to read the books, I know that his mother wouldnt'. She raised 5 kids who all turned out SOOO well that she just must be the best mother and know what to do in every situation.
So long story short, are any of those books good for littler ones?
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