You Are Not Special by David Mccullough Jr
The intense pressure to excel discourages kids from taking chances, failing, and learning empathy and self-confidence from those failures. The author takes pressure off of students to be extraordinary achievers and instead exhorts them to roll up their sleeves and do something useful with their advantages.‘The author tackles big issues … with searching sincerity, open-heartedness, and a deft, light touch’
* Kirkus starred review *‘McCullough scores an A+ with this volume for teens and parents. Rich in literary references and poetic in cadence, the author … offers plenty of hilarious and pointed comments on teens and today’s society.’
* Publishers Weekly starred review *‘Every once in a long while, a voice seems to come out of nowhere, and you wonder how you ever managed without [it]. David McCullough, Jr. has that startling, insightful, wry, reassuring, helpful voice, and You Are Not Special may be the wisest ‘parenting’ book I’ve read in decades.’
-- MADELINE LEVINE, author of The Price of Privilege and Teach Your Children Well
David McCullough Jr taught for sixteen years at Punahou School in Honolulu, and has been teaching at Wellesley High School near Boston since 2002. He lives with his wife and four children in Sudbury, Massachusetts.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781922247780 |
| ISBN 10 | 1922247782 |
| Title | You Are Not Special |
| Author | David Mccullough Jr |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Scribe Publications |
| Year published | 2014-09-11 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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