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“The Thorn Birds” Colin McCullough
The story of the novel spans half a century and tells the life of the Cleary family, which has made its way from the New Zealand poor to the stewards of one of the largest Australian estates, Drogheda. Reading the novel, you will empathize with each of the family members, you will rejoice at their victories and share their grief with them. They will become your family, and little Maggie will grow up before your eyes. The story of her love for Reverend Ralph will melt even the coldest heart. Reading the novel you realize that real love does not pay attention to any conventions, there are no frameworks for her - neither the difference in age nor social status. Love is a feeling so strong and deep that it is not afraid of anything, even God.
The ancient Greeks believed that reckless love was a sin before the gods. And remember: if you love someone so recklessly, the gods become jealous and will certainly destroy the loved one in the prime of life. This is a lesson for all of us, Maggie. To love beyond measure is blasphemy.
“Just Kids” by Patti Smith
Patti Smith is an American rock singer and poet, friend and favorite model of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. In her memoirs, she paints an accurate and at the same time deeply personal portrait of the era. New York in the late 60s - early 70s, the atmosphere of Andy Warhol's Factory and the Chelsea Hotel, meetings with the great beat poets and legendary musicians - all this is inextricably intertwined with the story of growing up and creative growth of Patti herself, one of the brightest representatives of the generation. “Just Children” is the poet’s deep, precise, imaginative prose, going far beyond the memoir genre.
“Consuelo” George Sand
The story of a gypsy daughter, ugly and poor, but with amazing subtle soul and a wonderful voice. Together with Consuelo you travel through Venice, the Czech Republic, Austria, rejoice at her successes, experience with her her first love, betrayal, learn what envy is and become convinced that there is nothing worse than inequality of souls. Treat broken heart the heroine leaves for a gloomy castle in the Czech Republic, where she meets the strange Count Albert, whom everyone considers crazy. It was the meeting with him that would change Consuelo’s whole life, as well as the life of Albert himself.
Marriage without love is lifelong hard labor.
“Jane Eyre” Charlotte Brontë
A story about a girl, Jane Eyre, who was left without parents at an early age and was forced to endure bullying from her aunt and her children. Poor health, ugly and withdrawn, impressionable and inquisitive, the heroine will have to endure more than one test of fate, losing a close friend. Her life will change when she meets Edward Rochester. He is much older than her, he has a complex character, he is ironic and gloomy, and self-confident. There are some misfortunes lurking in his past that weigh him down. But Jane is interested in this new, complex character, because they love not for something, but in spite of everything. Oddly enough, Edward also reciprocates the heroine’s feelings, it would seem that Jane will finally be happy... But no. On the path to happiness, Jane and Edward still have a lot to go through, suffer and learn a lot of new things about each other and about themselves.
Looking at him gave me deep joy - exciting and at the same time painful, precious, like gold without alloy, but melting within itself sharp pain. A pleasure similar to that which a man dying of thirst must experience, who knows that the well to which he has crawled is poisoned, but still drinks the divine moisture with greedy sips.
“The Abandoned Woman” by Honore de Balzac
The book is part of the “Human Comedy” series of works and tells about the life of a French lady who, after a big scandal, decided to leave high society. She was in self-imposed exile for a long time, before she met the young ambitious man. Naturally, a story about love. In this work, Balzac managed to accurately describe not only the feelings of a guy in love, but also convey the feelings of a woman.
“Wuthering Heights"Emily Brontë
Emily Brontë's only novel about strange love the rough and tough hermit Heathcliff to the sophisticated Catherine Earnshaw. Throughout the entire story, the author keeps the reader in suspense. Reading the novel, you will experience a whole range of emotions and contradictions, from rejection and misunderstanding of the wild, ignorant and strange Heathcliff, to empathy and sympathy for his tragic fate. You will understand how generous and noble even the most callous person can be if he truly loves, and how cruel and cold he becomes if the wrong person is next to him.
“The Collector” John Fowles
A psychological thriller that can be read in one sitting. The author uses intertext with such skill that you enjoy every chapter you read. There is a reinterpretation of the myth of Hades and Persephone, and allusions to Shakespeare’s “The Tempest”... This is the story of a lonely and narrow-minded butterfly collector and photography enthusiast who has a secret love for a local beauty. The love is so strong that he decides to kidnap him. But is this love? On the pages of the novel, a real confrontation unfolds between good and evil, love, beauty and death, the primitive man in the street and the sublime artist.
“Moment” Vladimir Vinnichenko
The story of a short, but bright and refined love between a revolutionary and a lady in extreme situation when life can end at any moment. The novella shows us that we need to have time to live and love, because happiness is a moment.
Happiness is a moment. Then it’s commonplace, vulgarity
“Three Comrades” Erich Maria Remarque
In our cynical time, when feelings and spiritual values are devalued, as monetary units With his novel, Remarque revives faith in love, in sincerity, in kindness, in honesty. He is the author who in simple words can say something serious and important. A novel about deep, pure, selfless love and true male friendship
In our business age you need to be able to be romantic, that’s the trick. Contrasts are attractive.
“Letter from a Stranger” Stefan Zweig
A Letter from a Stranger is an unusual book. To an ignorant reader it may seem that this novella was written by a woman: her feelings are so accurately and deeply described. A work written in the form of a letter in which a woman addresses her lover simply cannot leave you indifferent.
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“When you go to college, go to work, you become an adult...” - this saying haunts us throughout our childhood and adolescence. Does adulthood equal passing the Unified State Exam, admission to university, getting a job? Not everyone has it. What should you teach a child so that at the age of 18 he will truly be an adult? And what should I immediately stop doing for him and for him?
Recently, at the beginning of the fall quarter, the following event occurred at Stanford. One freshman, who had been living on campus for several days, received things from home by express mail. The boxes were unloaded onto the sidewalk next to the dorm. The young man left them there: they were large and heavy - he couldn’t handle it alone - and he didn’t know how to lift them to his room. The student then explained to the university employee who lived in the dorm and, after calling the student’s mother, who arranged for help, that he didn’t know how to ask someone to help with the boxes.
This is a failure of education. A child does not acquire life skills overnight magic wand With the last blow hours on his eighteenth birthday. Childhood should be a training ground. Parents can help - but not by always being ready to do everything or providing advice over the phone, but by getting out of the way and allowing the child to figure it out on his own.
Look at two situations that an adult should be able to handle - a life skill in itself: 1) illness outside the home and 2) car breakdown. Are we preparing for them? No, we don't cook.
Susan is an emergency room doctor at a hospital in downtown Washington. Nineteen-year-old students are her “most unpleasant patients.” Susan is kind and loving woman, mother of two natural and three adopted children - all under eighteen. So I was a little surprised by her sarcastic tone.
“The students are generally healthy, and their parents take care of them at home. They come to our department with an infection of the upper respiratory tract- you might think this is the end of the world. They get very nervous if you don’t give them an antibiotic and refuse to hospitalize them, but it’s just a cold - just drink more fluids and lie in bed for a couple of days.”
Susan tells how students burst into tears on the cold linoleum of the intensive care unit and cry on their mobile phones about this great grief - probably to friends and family. “They don’t know how to fight at all,” she says.
If you've ever planned a trip by car, you know that breakdowns are common. Todd Berger - CEO AAA Mountain West, a chapter of the American Automobile Association that covers Alaska, Montana and Wyoming. Seeing how needy millennial drivers are for support drives him crazy.
“Kids today are completely unprepared,” Todd says. He was born in Montana, owns a ranch and raises his own teenagers. When he talks about the life skills that are so lacking in most of the young people he now interacts with at work, there is both sternness and weariness in his tone.
The American Automobile Association's mission is emergency roadside service, not full service. They'll change the tire, charge the battery, tow you somewhere, but won't bother comprehensive solution problems with the car. However, young drivers demand full service on site.
“They have this mentality: “I don’t know anything, fix it quickly, my parents paid for it.” We also often notice that they don’t trust us. The team arrives, and they take out their phone and ask their friends on Facebook to help with the car. We don’t We know what to do with them. We really don’t.”
I've spoken to parents all over the country and many admit there are skills issues. They tell amazing stories.
“The children are in the last grade and don’t know how to ride the subway”;
“If I take my teenager into town and say, ‘Find your way home,’ he’ll get confused.”
“My daughter didn’t learn to cook because she had to do homework every night”;
"My biggest fear is that my daughter will go to college in a year and a half. I don't know how she'll get up in the morning." Mom from last example She added that she asked her daughter to cook her own breakfast. When she asked why, the parent replied: “I need to know that you can do this.”
That's the whole point. We need to know what they can do.
But how to achieve this?
You can't give another person life skills. Everyone must acquire them independently, with their own labor. If we don't prepare our children—and ourselves—for the inevitable moment when they have to fend for themselves, we're all in for a rude awakening.
Do we want our children—technically adults, but often still children—once they go to college or start working, standing bewildered on a sunlit sidewalk, not knowing how to carry a package into their room? Is the only way out is to call mom and dad so they can solve the problem?
What does it mean to be an adult
There are all sorts of legal definitions of "adulthood": this is the age at which a person can start a family without parental consent (in most American states at 16), to fight and die for one's country (18) and to drink alcohol (21). But what does it mean developmentally to think and behave like adults?
Standard for decades sociological definition fully reflected the social norm: finish school, leave parents' house, become financially independent, start a family and have children. In 1960, 77% of women and 65% of men achieved all five points by age 30. In 2000, only half of thirty-year-old women and a third of their male peers met this criterion.
These traditional milestones are clearly outdated. Marriage is no longer a prerequisite for a woman's financial security, and children are no longer an inevitable result of sexual activity. If you measure "adulthood" by milestones that young people no longer strive for, you won't get very far. Need more modern definition, and can be found by interviewing young people themselves.
In a 2007 study published in the Journal of Family Psychology, researchers asked people between the ages of 18 and 25 which criteria of adulthood seemed most indicative of them. In descending order of importance the following were named:
- responsibility for the consequences of one's actions;
- communication with parents as equals;
- financial independence from parents;
- formation of values and beliefs independent of parents and other influences.
Based on observations of almost 20 thousand young people from 18 to 22 years old while working as a dean, I agree with these data and believe that this is a problem.
What to learn before entering university: 8 basic life skills
If we want our children to have a chance to survive in the adult world without an umbilical cord... mobile phone, they will need a set of basic life skills. Based on my own observations as a dean, as well as advice from parents and educators across the country, here are a few practical skills a child should master before entering college. Here I will show the “crutches” that are currently preventing them from getting back on their feet on their own.
1. An eighteen-year-old must be able to talk to strangers.- teachers, deans, consultants, homeowners, salespeople, HR managers, colleagues, bank employees, health workers, bus drivers, auto mechanics.
Crutch: We ask children not to talk to strangers, rather than helping them learn the more subtle skill of distinguishing the few bad strangers from the many good ones. As a result, children do not know how to approach a stranger - politely, establishing eye contact, - to ask for help, to suggest, to advise. And this would be very useful to them in the big world.
2. An eighteen-year-old must be able to navigate the campus, the town where the summer internship is taking place, or where he works or studies abroad.
Crutch: We carry and accompany children everywhere, even if they can get there by bus, bike or on foot. Because of this, they do not know the way from one place to another, do not know how to plan a route and cope with traffic chaos, and do not know how to make plans and follow them.
3. An eighteen-year-old must be able to manage his or her tasks, work, and deadlines.
Crutch: we remind children when to turn in work and when to take it on, and sometimes we help or simply do everything for them. Because of this, children don't know how to prioritize, manage workloads, and meet deadlines without regular reminders.
4. An eighteen-year-old must be able to do housework.
Crutch: we do not very persistently ask for help around the house, because in childhood, which is planned to the smallest detail, there is little time left for anything other than studying and extracurricular activities. Because of this, children do not know how to run a household, look after their own needs, respect the needs of others and contribute to the general well-being.
5. An eighteen-year-old must be able to cope with interpersonal problems.
Crutch: we intervene to resolve misunderstandings and soothe hurt feelings. Because of this, children do not know how to cope with situations and resolve conflicts without our intervention.
6. An eighteen-year-old must be able to cope with changes in academic and workload at a university, with competition, strict teachers, bosses, and so on.
Crutch: V Hard time we get into the game - finishing tasks, extending deadlines, talking to people. Because of this, children do not understand that in life, not everything usually goes the way they want, and that even in spite of this, everything will be fine.
7. An eighteen-year-old must be able to earn money and spend it wisely.
Crutch: children stopped working part-time. They receive money from us for everything they want and do not need anything. They do not develop a sense of responsibility for completing tasks at work, they do not have a sense of accountability to a boss who is not obliged to love them, they do not know the value of things and do not know how to manage their finances.
8. An eighteen-year-old must be able to take risks.
Crutch: we pave the way for them, level out the holes and prevent them from stumbling. Because of this, children do not understand that success comes only to those who try, fail, and try again (i.e., persevere), and to those who endure adversity (i.e., perseverance), which is a skill that comes from struggling. with failures.
Remember: children must be able to do all this without calling their parents. If they call and ask, they won’t have a life skill.
Julie Lythcott-Haims
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I mastered the clinic, home work, and traveling around Moscow. Planning is more difficult, and so is time. No long-term intentions yet.
Most parents understand perfectly well what their grown children should be able to do. Find me a parent who doesn't think they should know how to do housework. But how to achieve this? There is not a word about this in the article. This main drawback articles.
In general, I read translated articles with a feeling of great awkwardness and bewilderment, and I cannot understand whether there really are no domestic authors.
Because not everyone needs to be able to repair a car at the age of 18, but you need to navigate not the campus, but the millionaire. And they all have Google to guide them. At the age of 12, my son was already calling the metro information desk to find out what was closed where. And I couldn’t figure out what to do.
It is advisable to navigate by avoiding protests. Because at the age of 13, when my son was taller than me, I once rushed to pick him up from classes, because there was a cordon on Gostinka, the day before they took exactly the same boy right with a violin.
About the groans of sick children... Yes, mine has been going to the clinic on its own for a long time. Yes, from the age of 13. But after the flu with t 39, after my persistent persuasion, he goes there, and when he complains of a cough, no one listens to his lungs. If I were, of course, everything would be a little better.
Our children have not stopped working part-time, and in general, most of them have not started, to be honest. But you need to be able not only to work, but to work where they pay :) And not “come back tomorrow.” For some reason, ours can do a lot, but does everything for free :) Well, that’s how it is with us.
And I can’t tell my 75-year-old neighbor with two grandchildren to look after that he needs to pay for a computer. help. Our life is a little different.
Comment on the article "What should a person be able to do at 18? 8 life skills"
Well, at least normal person must know your language - the goal in Russian is to be able to Who, even after 18 years of age, will do in life what they “want and are interested in” Education and leisure, maybe development is easy some necessary life skills and everything...
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I came across a similar school when I was looking for a school. for khukhrik (i.e. it was a long time ago). It implies a huge involvement of parents in this issue. I realized that I couldn’t handle it. I, besides Khukhrik, have other things to do, and somehow I was not ready to devote my whole life to his education. This, by the way, was also an officially registered school. It was located in a park, almost like a hut in the forest :) This is also a school-park. Not far from our house. Some took their children there from afar, saying that it was the only place where the child could study. But still, I was not ready to spend so much time on it. Most parents spent almost half a day there.
It would be nice to organize “courses” in the field of additional education at schools or centers of additional education. education, deepening school subjects. Free of charge whenever possible. One parent teaches some classes, the other teaches others, and you can pool together to invite a teacher. But now it’s becoming more and more difficult for parents to get to school and for those who need it.
What should a girl be able to do? Prepare? Sew? What can children aged 1, 4 do? (long!). Achievements. Child from 1 to 3. Raising a child from one to three years: hardening and development, nutrition and illness, daily routine and development of household skills.
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My daughter is almost 15. early age discovered absolute pitch. Graduated a year ago music school violin class. She doesn’t intend to make this her profession, but she hasn’t abandoned the instrument either. He selects melodies from his favorite anime cartoons and plays jazz in an ensemble. At the same time, she first took up dancing, then circus art(naturally flexible and dexterous), drawing (it was not an art school, but just a club). He is still involved in the circus and is a member of a children's circus group. In the pool I learned to swim like a fish. There were also a lot of little things like beading. Now she knits a lot and well. I mastered beads and knitting on my own. She knows how to bake cupcakes and cookies very tasty. True, she rarely does this. She planned to become a hairdresser-stylist. She wants to take up drawing again. I have always loved doing hair and makeup. I myself was once seriously involved in rhythmic gymnastics. She was a candidate for master of sports. I never liked cooking, but I liked handicrafts. I learned to sew, knit, and weave beads myself. I have been able to design clothes since I was 10 years old. I enjoyed digging in the beds. From the age of 8 I had my own corner in the garden. She loved to tinker with animals. She loved to draw. My parents didn't let me in art school, and then to the Veterinary Academy. I still can’t forgive them for this... Handicrafts have definitely come in handy in life. I still draw now. There were even a couple of exhibitions. I breed Syrian hamsters and violets. As for sports, I dance and do yoga. Sport school I've stopped sitting still for the rest of my life. I recommend that the author of this post pay attention to sports and languages. This is always needed. Dancing is rhythm, grace and a good figure. It will never be too much for a girl. Let him master some handicraft.
05/25/2017 01:13:27, necke71as one smart person said: there’s nothing to do, squat! you can be good and smart, but a pumped up butt won’t hurt you!))
24.05.2017 17:05:14, Irina_I_have_a_teenager_daughterIt started... A bit early, but these are the realities. Almost 5 years ago we welcomed three orphans, boys, and preschool-age brothers into our family. The eldest was 5, the youngest one and a half years old. Through a short time It turned out that children adapt very poorly to society. They cannot follow established rules, follow instructions from adults, work in classes, or respond adequately to comments. The visual effect that children are outwardly very beautiful, well-groomed, well-groomed, developed and intelligent - causes others...
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Hello, I know a year has passed since you wrote here about your problem, how did you solve everything? My son is in first grade, I transferred him to another school in November and a month later all the horror that you write here began!! Mainly with teachers and the school director, I I don’t know how to help my son!!! There are no places in another school, mostly he gets along with his classmates, mostly he gets along with the girls, but he freaks out terribly with bullies! And the director’s threats and insults, I can’t cry at home, I see how they’re driving him... youngest son 5,5 great relationship, there are no psychos at home... but there... they went to a neurologist, and a pediatrician... and in kindergarten, everyone says normal child.... How to resolve the situation, and they insult me for being inactive...
04/05/2018 14:51:45, Kris66tyLee, strength and patience to you! I can’t give any advice due to the lack of such experience, but I can support you good wishes I want to. Health and wisdom in the New Year!
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The article does not take into account that the school enters into a relationship not with the developing personality of the student, but with the formed personality of the head of his family. And whether a student washes the floors at school is decided not by the student or the school, but by the student’s father and no one else. The school decides this North Korea, that’s where the authors call us.
In Finland, this is decided by the student, another form of totalitarianism, no better, only not yet fully developed.
But in normal countries with sane societies, parents make demands on the child. And society can only limit the rights of ADULTS who do not meet one or another (including educational) requirements of society and the state.
That's all. And there is no need to introduce unnecessary philosophy here.
Naturally, only the student determines at what level he will learn. there can be no other way in principle
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Thank you!
Of course I would like to think that dangerous situation in principle impossible, but it is better to lay out the straw in advance. If the child masters the skills, more chances that he will not be confused and will be able to use them in an extreme situation.
Haven't seen you for a long time :))))
Following a visit to the largest toy exhibition in history, Spielwarenmesse in Nuremberg, which was attended by more than 76,000 visitors from 112 countries, Olga Muravyeva, director of the marketing department of the World of Childhood company, prepared an overview of the main trends in the toy market. - First of all, I would note that in the wake of the growing popularity in the world of blue-collar jobs, it is now generally accepted that toys can also help develop practical skills that will be useful in life. Some...
Conference "Child Psychology". Section: Mastering skills. In our country, a person is considered an adult and can get married at the age of 18; accordingly, you “can have sex” I.e. In modern society, an adult must at least finish school, and...
Discussion
1. I would calmly take the question to a legal level and answer half-jokingly, half-seriously. They say, since sex makes children, then sex is ALLOWED for adults who can take care of their children (feed, buy clothes, and so on). Ideally, the boy and girl get married, i.e. OFFICIALLY they declare to society that they will both have sex and be responsible for children. In our country, a person is considered an adult and can get married at the age of 18, so you “can have sex” after 10 years...
Yes, there are means of birth control, but none of them are 100% effective.
Everything is true, just a view from a certain “bell tower”. But he immediately puts everything in its place. If any questions follow literary themes(Romeo and Juliet were clearly under 18), refer to the difference in laws different countries. You can also talk about how growing up is determined by both physiology and social structure society. Those. In modern society, an adult must at least finish school, and medieval village Shepherd is already a profession! If you “pull” without details, talk more about different maturations in different nations: among the southerners earlier (but this is if you can calmly tell me that both boys and girls from the “south” look visually more mature than the northerners, they grow to their maximum height earlier, and boys begin to grow facial hair earlier). The reasons are both genetics and more sun.
2. When Raikin said that “love comes in different forms, for mom, for dad, for Grandma, for grandpa, and so on.” Discuss this aspect in DETAIL. And that not only now, but also at 18, sex is not the beginning of a relationship, but a very advanced part of it. What does a guy do to a girl? different signs attention: opens the door, lets you forward, gives you a coat, says compliments. It makes sense to discuss compliments in detail; this is quite age-appropriate.
3. From books... I wouldn’t give anything directly. I just left in a visible place the anatomical atlas (a fairly short one-volume book) and a short medical encyclopedia(also available in one volume). If he wants, he will look through it and read it.
Regarding question No. 2, I’ve had this book for a long time, I read it to my eldest before he was 8, and for sure, it went well, there was no excessive interest in this topic. 
if you want I can scan it
All more people adopt children or become foster parents. I'm not an exception. And more and more people are experiencing difficulties with children, disappointments, collapse of hopes, burning out... I am lucky, I have a wonderful son, healthy, handsome, smart, beloved little one. But how to love children if they are not what you wanted and dreamed of? Despite the fact that my beloved baby is still very small, I know that I will always love him, no matter what difficulties await us. Although I know that we will have everything and...
Discussion
Pride does not get rid of. They renounce it (c) Mother Teresa Renunciation of pride = humility. Humility is thinking about yourself is not bad. It's not enough to think about yourself. (c)
I am leaving this topic, which, unfortunately, was not possible to discuss.
Finally, please read this wise parable.
TAKE YOURS
One day Buddha and his disciples passed by a village in which opponents of Buddhists lived. The villagers rushed out of their houses, surrounded the Buddha and the disciples, and began to insult them. The disciples also began to get excited and were ready to fight back, but the presence of the Buddha had a calming effect. But the Buddha's words confused both the villagers and the disciples. He turned to the disciples and said:
You have disappointed me. These people are doing their job. They are angry. It seems to them that I am an enemy of their religion, their moral values. These people insult me, and that's natural. But why are you angry? Why did you allow these people to manipulate you? You are now dependent on them. Aren't you free?
The villagers did not expect such a reaction. They were puzzled and quiet. In the silence that followed, Buddha turned to them:
Have you said everything? If you haven’t said everything, you will still have the opportunity to tell me everything you think when we return.
The people from the village were completely perplexed, they asked:
- But we insulted you, why aren’t you angry with us?
- You are free people, and what you did is your right. I don't react to this.
Me too free man. Nothing can make me react and no one can influence or manipulate me. I am the master of my manifestations. My actions follow from my internal state. Now I would like to ask you a question that concerns you. The villagers next to yours greeted me, they brought flowers, fruits and sweets with them. I told them: “Thank you, but we already had breakfast. Take these fruits with my blessing for yourself. We can’t carry them with us, we don’t carry food with us.” Now I ask you: “What should they do with what I did not accept and gave back to them?”
One person from the crowd said:
They probably took it home, and at home they distributed fruits and sweets to their children, their families.
Buddha smiled:
What will you do with your insults and curses? I don't accept them. If I refuse those fruits and sweets, they have to take them back. What can you do? I reject your insults, so you too take your load home and do with it whatever you want.
I meet different people, I can carry on a conversation, I can get anywhere in Moscow and the region, I go alone to student camps where I don’t know anyone. 10/06/2012 18:41:08, Ketchup. yes, last year a psychologist identified my daughter as an introvert :)) it was funny.
Discussion
And it’s only now that all this has become interesting to me. I want to perfect my relationships with the people closest to me. Before that I lived as I live. I built relationships with less close ones at a decent level of respect, mutual understanding, etc. I thought that my loved ones loved me anyway. They love, yes, but you can add pleasant things in communicating with them.
I’m fully socialized, but my husband.... didn’t go to kindergarten, and now I’m struggling to adapt (just kidding)
But, let’s say, she is unable to set them and/or control the completion of tasks by other people. These skills can be developed, but why doesn’t he know how to work, he can do it, and probably well, he doesn’t know how to move up, and that’s different. 07/11/2012 18:39:51, mouse on the server.
Discussion
She knows how to study, not live.
This happens, for example, I have a friend who is ambitious, a school with a medal, a university with honors, but she couldn’t work, several times she was hired at a bank as a teller, and after a few months she was fired, the most telling thing, it seems to me, she told me that when She was asked to photocopy the document, she refused because... this is not her responsibility...she later became indignant at me, “I will photocopy documents with honors, I’m not a secretary...” Now she is raising 2 children (7 and 3 years old), sits at home and complains that it is very difficult for her to cope with children .
Today I had a fight with my husband again. AND Last year this happens for the same reason: I'm in maternity leave, the child is two years old, I put it on myself most everyday life Thank God my mother actively helps me, without her I would be unbearable. Every time my husband comes home from work, he looks for a reason to find fault with the cleanliness of the apartment. I am tormented by the question, why did he not care about this before, but now, even some toy that was not picked up after the child becomes my “jamb”? Let me explain. When we started living together...
Discussion
Thank you very much everyone for your feedback. My mother’s example still taught me that in any case I won’t be left penniless. In September my daughter will go to kindergarten, and then I will go to work and home quiet life husband will end. I will not hire a nanny under any circumstances, this is my subjective opinion.
For those who don’t quite understand me, I want to clarify: doing household chores with all the household appliances is certainly not a problem, but I’m not eager to do it every day. When in the whole day you have time with your child to do a bunch of things at the doctors and around the house, and to go to the store and sew something else for your child, and to play sports. And when dad returns, you expect, satisfied with yourself, well, if not admiration, then at least some kind of gratitude, but instead you hear: “That’s it? I could have done all this in 3 hours, but was it difficult to clean up here?” It ends in nothing but a scandal, and after that I don’t want to have sex, or warmth, or even talk.
An example of my mother’s life (. She never really came out of maternity leave with me. But there were music classes, ballet, art, etc. Institute and everything was fine. My father provided VERY well. But... as I grew up, he from time to time he started a conversation with me about why my mother didn’t work (apparently, she was counting on what I would tell her. I didn’t dare open such a topic..). I know for sure that money didn’t play any role. My father received a lot (high rank in the army) and at the same time was very intangible. He needed social status wife. Exactly the same wonderful mother is my friend. Her husband is a wealthy oriental man. Moreover, his housewife wife is very burdensome for him.. It was announced in the presence of me and my husband and the matter is slowly but surely moving towards divorce, most likely ((.Well There are such men. Although women too.. I can’t imagine that I could love a *householder*, even if he is rich.
07/11/2012 14:47:42, songbird...Does it bother you that we are preparing children for life in a world that does not yet exist and about which we know nothing? Unlike the generations of our mothers and grandmothers, we do not even have the illusion that we know what skills they need, what profession to choose. All we can say for sure is that everything will be completely different from before. Everything will change quickly. And our experience most likely will not be useful to our children. How do you decide for yourself - what to choose for your child, what to guide him towards, which university to prefer?
Discussion
I don’t choose, I don’t direct, he’ll figure it out on his own. But for now the child (he is 15) is gravitating towards a profession that has existed for thousands of years and which one of his grandfather and one great-grandfather had (and which I didn’t like at all before, but since the child chose it, I like it more and more).
The most important thing is to identify abilities in time, turn them into inclinations - and then help with the development of talents. And do not impose your views on life. A child cannot live your life.
Hello to everyone who is not indifferent to the fate of children in children's homes. We live on the Black Sea coast and in 2008 we took a boy from Children's Home Nizhny Novgorod. [link-1] Story “Seryozha Believes in Miracles” And then some time passed and we decided to give our love and care to another child. We decided to take a girl this time. We started collecting documents in August and received them on October 20th. Submitted an application to the Department. We received a referral to visit an 8-year-old girl. And then we find out that the child...
Discussion
Yesterday I was going to work, morning, minibus, long ride (well, by our standards) - 40 minutes
conversation between two teenagers, 16-17 years old (studying at college)
- yes, I heard that Kolyan’s parents refused him, he was handed over to the DD
- no, no, you don’t understand, they sent him to a closed boarding school (in our region)
- wow, horror
- no, nothing, he says - it’s fine, but there are no cigarettes
-So what, did you quit?
- no, they hang out under the fence, shoot at passing men, as they say that they are from an orphanage - there are men there and I also give them money
- good, but damn, when you try to shoot, instead of a cigarette you’ll get hit in the neck faster, but you can’t ask your mother for 10 for the phone
something like that:(
You don’t know everything, maybe the girl has relatives and they visit her occasionally. I have met such children and never struggled, especially with blood relatives. IMHO, you will meet another child!
I don't know about the director. accuse in absentia stranger- Don't want. But children, as they wrote below, are not decreasing. So there is no point in holding on to one.
After all, if a person knows how to build connections with people well, he will find communication and But you can’t remove the nanny, in a year the mother will have to go to work, the child must get used to the fact that he will be with the nanny... Lunacharsky, by the way, very accurately noticed this in 18 (I think) year.
Discussion
The problem is not simple. Every family is structured differently. For me there was no question: I work from morning to evening, I can do upbringing, but not education. The house and yard are not suitable for communication. Therefore, I chose a school where the teaching was excellent and the values of the teachers were no different from mine. Plus, mostly good children, intelligent parents. I believe, that school years were very active process namely socialization. At home, he mostly communicated with adults; he spoke, thought, and communicated like an adult. At school, he first entered into relationships that were more complex, and more structured: inter-group communication, intra-group communication. Searching for my place in the group, I learned to defend my opinion in both favorable and unfavorable situations. At the output (as a result joint activities family and school) we see an adapted person who knows how to prove his own point of view and respect other people’s points of view, choose friends who are not random, but interesting, etc. Without school, we definitely wouldn’t have been able to do this.
Why are the Japanese ahead of the rest? Because their school is based only on the first principle, plus sorting by level every two months, regardless of age.
First I wrote short message, read other people's comments... In my humble opinion, everyone should read/write/count. Is physics, chemistry, etc. necessary? That’s the question. Don’t think that I myself only know spoken/written/matt Russian and can only count money.
Why teach everyone? I myself work as a teacher, in order to make 100% of my studies I need to use girders. In any group of students, regardless of age and profile/level of education, there are those who actively DO NOT want to study. And their mood is transmitted (not to all) to the rest.
I'm 32 and I continue to learn something every day. They don’t understand that life is an ongoing process of self/learning. The trouble is that it is not brought to their understanding that ignorance/inability in the future means the absence of a pleasant/highly paid job. they must have an incentive. Not a stick with a nail, as in Greece, but normal goals to which one must strive. What do you want in life?.. Material goods?.. Earn money?.. A lot?.. We need to be able to spin... Responsibility... We need to know a lot... If we continue to communicate at school at the level of “yes, you’re stupid, it’s okay, you’ll stay like that,” where shall we go? During the lesson, 16-17 year olds have to explain why the ceiling area is equal to the floor area. Children must first of all be instilled with healthy self-esteem and respect. Ten years ago, when I indirectly made it clear to my students that they didn’t know a damn thing, they began to work hard, and achieved results INDEPENDENTLY, without pushing. And now the answer to the question “Can you think logically” is a complaint to the class teacher.
Why are the Japanese ahead of the rest? Because their school is based only on the first principle, plus sorting by level every two months, regardless of age. So, for now, focus on these standards - and we will see from there :)
Good luck!
Yes, it’s probably good that my son doesn’t go to kindergarten :))) What you have by the age of five: fluent reading, however, is not very friendly with punctuation marks and difficult words stumbles. He identifies syllables and can count their number in a word by ear. Can make sentences of 5-8 words and prepositions. He can form a word from a set of letters and solve Mickey Mouse-level crossword puzzles himself.
His math skills are strange: he can count up to 300-500, he can count in tens, he knows more or less, he knows even or odd, geometric figures knows almost everything by touch, sometimes gets confused with trapezoids. Visually knows everything. Theoretically, he knows how to subtract and add within 10, but he doesn’t want to :)
Thanks to the fact that we systematically and responsibly approached the development of life skills in Well, there is no way a person will be able to learn to drive a car well if he is at least 40 years old. Professionals with 10 years of experience also die in accidents. It's not a fact that an 18 year old...
Discussion
Please don’t force your daughter if she doesn’t want to and is afraid. I couldn’t go to the store even in the 5th grade. Although my younger sister ran around from the first grade, she asked. They always wanted to teach me to be independent, but in such a way that I was even more I closed myself off. Oh, how expensive it was for me.
I don’t know, maybe they brought me up this way, maybe it’s a character trait. I’m quiet by nature, and also stubborn. I only retired when I was 17. Don’t put pressure on your daughter, everything has its time.
Although my son has been going to buy bread since he was 5 years old. Remembering myself, his behavior sometimes shocks me. As much as I was downtrodden, he now has no complexes, and I especially don’t teach him to be independent.
Kate, it’s better to wait a little, my sister was exactly the same, until she was 13 years old, then she gradually began to move away. Her mother was jealous :))) of mine, at the age of 9 I stayed overnight with my 2-year-old brother, fed him, washed him, put him to bed (my parents were on duty in shifts) And I went out of town to the dacha, back with buckets (fruits) But now I have my sisters are all right (she’s the same age as me) She graduated from college, got settled in life, and by the way, at the age of 9 she was afraid of cats!
08/03/2000 04:21:19, Anna!1. 50 days before my suicide
Stace Kramer
Due to her parents' divorce and unreciprocal love, Gloria experiences depression. But she doesn’t know that all these are just minor troubles compared to what she will have to go through. Within 50 days, Laurie must find reasons to live, or vice versa.
2. Catcher in the Rye
Jerome D. Salinger
Salinger's only novel, The Catcher in the Rye, became a turning point in the history of world literature. The title of the novel and the name of the main character, Hold'em Colfid, became a code for many generations of young rebels - from beatniks and hippies to representatives of modern radical youth movements.
3. Nineteen minutes
Jodi Picoult
The silence of provincial Sterling is shaken by an extraordinary event - in one of the schools a student opens fire on his classmates. What made a teenager unlike others pick up a gun?
4. A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess
Rebellious, iconic, violent and very much a teenage book. IT'S worth reading when you're 16, or not at all. The main character is a young man named Alex, [censored] a sadist and a terrible monster who rapes, kills, speaks strange slang and unexpectedly transforms into a respectable citizen, an employee of a music archive. There is no logic, there is only a miracle, but it is quite understandable - Burgess began writing the novel, thinking that he would die, and finished, already knowing that the fatal diagnosis was a mistake.
5. White Bim Black Ear
Gabriel Troepolsky
The book is priceless in terms of showing different characters, different destinies, different life situations - masterfully written, cinematically depicted.
And yet... my heart was breaking with pain.
6. Hello Nobody
Burley Dougherty
Here you will find everything you can expect from a good book: a great idea, a touching plot, and also room to think out what is not directly said... Once you start reading this book, it is no longer possible to put it down until the very end. When I turned the last page, I felt as if I had lost two close friends.
7. Three comrades
Erich Maria Remarque
The most beautiful love story of the twentieth century...
The most charming novel in the twentieth century about friendship...
The most tragic and most charming novel about human relationships in the entire history of the twentieth century.
8. Blue grass. Diary of a fifteen-year-old drug addict
Anonymous
This book is unique in some ways. It is based on the true diary of a teenage girl, who talks about how she became addicted to drugs. The narration is told in a special, confidential way, captivating with its life truth and sincerity. This book does not pretend to be a detailed description of the world of drug addicts; it chronicles the life of just one girl who stumbled and did not survive.
9. It's good to be quiet
Stephen Chbosky
Charlie starts high school. Fearing what awaits him there after a recent nervous breakdown, he begins to write letters to someone he has never seen in his life, but who he is sure will understand him well. Charlie doesn't like going to dances because he usually likes songs that you can't dance to. Every new book he reads on the advice of Bill, his literature teacher, immediately becomes Charlie’s favorite: “To Kill a Mockingbird,” “Peter Pan,” “The Great Gatsby,” “The Catcher in the Rye,” “On the Road,” “Naked.” breakfast." Bill advises Charlie to "be a filter, not a sponge," and he honestly tries. Charlie is also trying not to remember tightly forgotten childhood traumas and to understand his feelings for high school student Sam, the sister of his friend Patrick, nicknamed No...
10. Children write to God
Mikhail Dymov
Why do people first fall in love and then cry quietly?
Andrey, 4th grade.
A must read for every teenager.
11. Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov
One can argue endlessly about what it was - dirty perversion or pure feeling, provocation or confession. Everything doesn't matter. It’s worth reading this book about the relationship between forty-year-old Humbert and his thirteen-year-old stepdaughter, if only to understand why we all sometimes behave so strangely when communicating with older men.
12. Truth or Consequences
Annika Thor
Many adults dreamily remember a “wonderful and carefree age,” but in the depths of their souls they shudder with horror and rejoice that “everything is over.” It’s scary when your body changes and stops obeying you, it’s scary to become the subject of ridicule from your peers. It's scary to be different from everyone else. But it’s even worse to be with the majority.
13. Gifts of the Magi
O.Henry
Small, but wonderful, amazing and powerful story! In one dozen pages, so much love for one's neighbor is conveyed... This tiny story can bring tears and joy at the same time!
14. Gone with the Wind
Margaret Mitchell
This is a book about love and war, about betrayal and loyalty, about cruelty and the beauty of life itself. This is one of those books that you return to again and again after years and feel the joy of meeting...
15. Memories of a crazy young man
Frederic Beigbeder
A romantic fairy tale told by an ironic Parisian snob: this is Beigbeder’s novel, written literally in one breath.
16. Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte
The sincere story of an orphan girl who, after going through years of cruelty and humiliation, was able to maintain moral principles and her own dignity, is perhaps one of the most romantic in English classical literature. The beauty of the main character's soul, true love, timeless, amazes and enchants, leaving a pure and bright feeling and a desire to re-read the novel again and again...
17. The Amazing Journey of Edward Rabbit
Kate DiCamillo
One day Pelegrina's grandmother gave her granddaughter Abilene an amazing toy rabbit named Edward Tulane. He was made of the finest porcelain, he had a whole wardrobe of exquisite silk suits and even a gold watch on a chain. Abilene adored her rabbit, kissed him, dressed him up and wound his watch every morning. And the rabbit did not love anyone but himself.
Once Abilene and her parents went on a sea voyage, and Edward the rabbit fell overboard and ended up at the very bottom of the ocean. An old fisherman caught it and brought it to his wife. Then the rabbit fell into the hands of different people - good and evil, noble and treacherous. Edward faced many trials, but the more difficult it was for him, the sooner his callous heart thawed: he learned to respond with love to love.
18. Walking
Panas Mirny
In a remote village, lost in the vastness of the Russian Empire, Christina’s maiden beauty blossomed like a spring flower. And this is a gift, but a difficult and dangerous gift. A beautiful girl faces thousands of temptations, and if she is also poor and lonely, then it is a hundred times more difficult for her to avoid them. Not a single man can resist Christina, who, by the will of fate, left her native village and ended up in a provincial town. Many sorrows and very few joys, which her pure, naive soul rejoiced so much, befell her lot. Christina’s life, like a shooting star, flashed in the dark sky, only to shine for a moment and dissolve in the darkness.
1. 50 days before my suicide
Stace Kramer
Due to her parents' divorce and unreciprocal love, Gloria experiences depression. But she doesn't know that all this is just minor troubles compared to what she will have to go through. Within 50 days, Laurie must find reasons to live, or vice versa.
2. Catcher in the Rye
Jerome D. Salinger
Salinger's only novel, The Catcher in the Rye, became a turning point in the history of world literature. The title of the novel and the name of the main character, Hold'em Colfid, became a code for many generations of young rebels - from beatniks and hippies to representatives of modern radical youth movements.
3. Nineteen minutes
Jodi Picoult
The silence of provincial Sterling is shaken by an extraordinary event - in one of the schools a student opens fire on his classmates. What made a teenager unlike others pick up a gun?
4. A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess
Rebellious, iconic, violent and very much a teenage book. It's worth reading when you're 16, or not at all. The main character is a young man named Alex, a hooligan, a sadist and a terrible monster who rapes, kills, speaks strange slang and unexpectedly transforms into a respectable citizen, an employee of a music archive. There is no logic, there is only a miracle, but it is quite understandable - Burgess began writing the novel, thinking that he would die, and finished, already knowing that the fatal diagnosis was a mistake.
5. White Bim Black Ear
Gabriel Troepolsky
The book is priceless in terms of showing different characters, different destinies, different life situations - masterfully written, cinematically depicted.
And yet... my heart was breaking with pain.
6. Hello Nobody
Burley Dougherty
Here you will find everything you can expect from a good book: a great idea, a touching plot, and also room to think out what is not directly said... Once you start reading this book, it is no longer possible to put it down until the very end. When I turned to the last page, I felt as if I had lost two close friends.
7. Three comrades
Erich Maria Remarque
The most beautiful love story of the twentieth century...
The most charming novel in the twentieth century about friendship...
The most tragic and most charming novel about human relationships in the entire history of the twentieth century.
8. Blue grass. Diary of a fifteen-year-old drug addict
Anonymous
This book is unique in some ways. It is based on the true diary of a teenage girl, who talks about how she became addicted to drugs. The narration is told in a special, confidential way, captivating with its life truth and sincerity. This book does not pretend to be a detailed description of the world of drug addicts; it chronicles the life of just one girl who stumbled and did not survive.
9. It's good to be quiet
Stephen Chbosky
Charlie starts high school. Fearing what awaits him there after a recent nervous breakdown, he begins to write letters to someone he has never seen in his life, but who he is sure will understand him well. Charlie doesn't like going to dances because he usually likes songs that you can't dance to. Every new book he reads on the advice of Bill, his literature teacher, immediately becomes Charlie’s favorite: “To Kill a Mockingbird,” “Peter Pan,” “The Great Gatsby,” “The Catcher in the Rye,” “On the Road,” “Naked.” breakfast." Bill advises Charlie to "be a filter, not a sponge," and he honestly tries. Charlie is also trying not to remember tightly forgotten childhood traumas and to understand his feelings for high school student Sam, the sister of his friend Patrick, nicknamed No...
10. Children write to God
Mikhail Dymov
Why do people first fall in love and then cry quietly?
Andrey, 4th grade.
A must read for every teenager.
11. Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov
One can argue endlessly about what it was - dirty perversion or pure feeling, provocation or confession. Everything doesn't matter. It’s worth reading this book about the relationship between forty-year-old Humbert and his thirteen-year-old stepdaughter, if only to understand why we all sometimes behave so strangely when communicating with older men.
12. Truth or Consequences
Annika Thor
Many adults dreamily remember a “wonderful and carefree age,” but in the depths of their souls they shudder with horror and rejoice that “everything is over.” It’s scary when your body changes and stops obeying you, it’s scary to become the subject of ridicule from your peers. It's scary to be different from everyone else. But it’s even worse to be with the majority.
13. Gifts of the Magi
O.Henry
Small, but wonderful, amazing and powerful story! In one dozen pages, so much love for one's neighbor is conveyed... This tiny story can bring tears and joy at the same time!
14. Gone with the Wind
Margaret Mitchell
This is a book about love and war, about betrayal and loyalty, about cruelty and the beauty of life itself. This is one of those books that you return to again and again after years and feel the joy of meeting...
15. Memories of a crazy young man
Frederic Beigbeder
A romantic fairy tale told by an ironic Parisian snob: this is Beigbeder’s novel, written literally in one breath.
16. Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontje
The sincere story of an orphan girl who, after going through years of cruelty and humiliation, was able to maintain moral principles and her own dignity, is perhaps one of the most romantic in English classical literature. The beauty of the main character's soul, true love, timeless, amazes and enchants, leaving a pure and bright feeling and a desire to re-read the novel again and again...
17. The Amazing Journey of Edward Rabbit
Kate DiCamillo
One day Pelegrina's grandmother gave her granddaughter Abilene an amazing toy rabbit named Edward Tulane. He was made of the finest porcelain, he had a whole wardrobe of exquisite silk suits and even a gold watch on a chain. Abilene adored her rabbit, kissed him, dressed him up and wound his watch every morning. And the rabbit did not love anyone but himself.
Once Abilene and her parents went on a sea voyage, and Edward the rabbit fell overboard and ended up at the very bottom of the ocean. An old fisherman caught it and brought it to his wife. Then the rabbit fell into the hands of different people - good and evil, noble and treacherous. Edward faced many trials, but the more difficult it was for him, the sooner his callous heart thawed: he learned to respond with love to love.
18. Walking
Panas Mirny
In a remote village, lost in the vastness of the Russian Empire, Christina’s maiden beauty blossomed like a spring flower. And this is a gift, but a difficult and dangerous gift. A beautiful girl faces thousands of temptations, and if she is also poor and lonely, then it is a hundred times more difficult for her to avoid them. Not a single man can resist Christina, who, by the will of fate, left her native village and ended up in a provincial town. Many sorrows and very few joys, which her pure, naive soul rejoiced so much, befell her lot. Christina’s life, like a shooting star, flashed in the dark sky, only to shine for a moment and dissolve in the darkness.
