What Kids Need for a Fulfilled Life
by Diane Tavenner
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Recommended by Bill Gates
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Parenting, Relationships & Family, and Most Recommended Books.
Diane Tavenner, founder of Summit Public Schools, offers a blueprint for a better way to educate our children, based on the revolutionary lessons, insights and methodology she and her faculty developed over 15 years at their famously successful charter schools in California and Washington, which she is now introducing to public school systems acros...
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Parenting, Relationships & Family, and Most Recommended Books.
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Bill Gates
Co-founder of Microsoft; co-chair of the Gates Foundation
“Diane Tavenner’s book offers amazing tips on preparing kids for college, a career, and life.”
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Consider The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy. Recommended by 8 sources.
“Soft-spoken, heavily illustrated fable built from short dialogues and watercolor sketches. Each spread pairs a spare line of text with a loose drawing, so the pleasure is visual and aphoristic rather than narrative; readers collect felt-true sentences more than plot. Most useful when you want quick consolations, a prompt for conversation with a child, or a pause during a rough day. Limiting if you want sustained argument, concrete advice, or tightly plotted storytelling: the repetition of gentleness can feel sentimental or thin after a while.”
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