Life Education - Facing Life Challenges Together with Your Child: Facing Life Challenges Together with Your Child

Author: Jay Donahue Walter
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Publish Date: 2006-06-01
Features: What kind of life qualifies as success? How can one live well? How can we help children prepare to face life's challenges? Life itself is a great classroom. Not just children, but ourselves too, should listen to what life has to say. This book expands the definition of current school education, transforming it into an integrated process—perfectly blending book learning and life experiences, and providing effective techniques for parents, educators, and those concerned with education. The title of this book can be understood in two ways, both of which are intentionally by the author. First, it aims to recommend an educational system that can help children prepare to face life's challenges, not just train them for jobs or acquiring knowledge. Additionally, another intention is to help readers understand that education is not just for the student years but for a lifetime. Life education, by name, means learning from life. It is a lifelong philosophy that benefits not only children but also helps us prepare to face lifelong learning and challenges.