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How to Be a Person: 65 Hugely Useful, Super-Important Skills to Learn before You're Grown Up
SKU
046957
ISBN
9781635861822
Grade 5-9
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Charlotte Mason
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Description
Middle schoolers are at that age where they want to assert their independence. While parents often assume kids know how to do things by watching, often more clear communication is needed and that is the purpose of this book. Let's start conversations about those life skills we take for granted as adults! Topics include caring for someone who is sick, falling asleep, being a good guest/host, wrapping a gift, how to apologize, filling out forms, loading the dishwasher, cleaning a bathroom, using a plunger, making scrambled eggs, doing laundry, sewing a button, managing money, building a fire and more! When we do chores ourselves because we like it done our way, we are not teaching kids to be adults, and it's exhausting! Help the kids and help yourself with some well-deserved rest. Kids will enjoy the author's writing style that is geared towards them, along with simple illustrations. This book is on a mission to teach young people how to contribute to their household now and be on their own in the future. ~Sara
Publisher's Description of How to Be a Person: 65 Hugely Useful, Super-Important Skills to Learn before You're Grown Up
For the kid who leaves a wet towel wadded up on the floor or forgets to put a new roll on the toilet-paper thingy, humorous writer and etiquette columnist Catherine Newman has created the ultimate guidebook to becoming a person whom everyone will like being around more. Jam-packed with tips, tricks, and skills — all illustrated in an irresistible graphic novel–style — this book shows kids just how easy it is to free themselves from parental nagging and become more dependable — and they'll like themselves better, too! They'll learn how to deal with dirty rooms, care for pets and cactuses, stick up for somebody, and fold a T-shirt. They'll even get a crash course on using the kitchen (including how to turn a 33-cent package of ramen into dinner) and a boot camp for lending a hand outside the house (mowing, shoveling, and fixing something loose has never been easier). This handbook to becoming beyond helpful promises that every kid can be a valued and valuable member of the grown-up world.
Details
| Product Format: | Paperback |
|---|---|
| Brand: | Storey Books |
| Author: | Catherine Newman |
| Grades: | 5-9 |
| ISBN: | 9781635861822 |
| Length in Inches: | 9 |
| Width in Inches: | 6.5 |
| Height in Inches: | 0.5 |
| Weight in Pounds: | 0.7438 |
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