Promises Kept: Raising Black Boys to Succeed in School and in Life [Unabridged] [Audible Audio Edition] Author: | Language: English | ISBN:
B00HUDL4Z0 | Format: PDF, EPUB
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As seen on PBS's POV An unprecedented guide to helping black boys achieve success at every stage of their lives - at home, at school, and in the world.
Regardless of how wealthy or poor their parents are, all black boys must confront and surmount the "achievement gap": a divide that shows up not only in our sons' test scores, but in their social and emotional development, their physical well-being, and their outlook on life. As children, they score as high on cognitive tests as their peers, but at some point, the gap emerges. Why?
This is the question Joe Brewster, M.D., and Michele Stephenson asked when their own son, Idris, began struggling in a new school. As they filmed his experiences for their award-winning documentary American Promise, they met an array of researchers who had not only identified the reasons for the gap, but had come up with practical, innovative solutions to close it.
In Promises Kept, they explain how to influence your son's brain before he's even born; how to tell the difference between authoritarian and authoritative discipline - and why it matters; how to create an educational program for your son that matches his needs; how to prepare him for explicit and implicit racism in school and in the wider world; how to help your child develop resilience, self-discipline, emotional intelligence, and a positive outlook that will last a lifetime.
Filled with innovative research, practical strategies, and the voices of parents and children who are grappling with these issues firsthand, Promises Kept will challenge your assumptions and inspire you to make sure your child isn't lost in the gap.
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- Audible Audio Edition
- Listening Length: 12 hours and 41 minutes
- Program Type: Audiobook
- Version: Unabridged
- Publisher: Random House Audio
- Audible.com Release Date: January 14, 2014
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00HUDL4Z0
On February 3, 2014, most PBS stations will be showing "American Promise", the film made by Joe Brewster and Michele Stephenson, the authors of Promises Kept: Raising Black Boys to Succeed in School and in Life, which was made from 13 years of filming their oldest son's education at Dalton school, a prestigious school in Manhattan. Idris, their son, started the school with his best friend Seun, but Seun would leave Dalton in high school and go to Benjamin Banneker Academy, where most students were black. What the film focuses on is how black boys are treated in school, how they learn, and why what goes on at school and at home is so important to their success in school and life.
This book does covers some of what went on at Dalton with the boys, but it's mostly a stand-alone manual on how to raise and educate a black son. It covers lots and lots of things, too--early home education, parenting styles, discipline, teaching time management and persistence, understanding special needs and learning styles, making sure the schools recognize a parent's presence, combating stereotype threats, talking about race issues, etc. If this all sounds too academic or dry to you, the book is no such thing. It's actually an extremely interesting book written for the general reading public, filled with all sorts of stories and statistics about black boys, and how what they face in life is often very different than what boys of other races face, and different than what black girls face. (No, the authors have no daughters, only two sons. :)
Many people are quoted, from highly educated professionals to typical middle-class and lower-income parents.
Please do not let the sub title of this book mislead you. This book is helpful to parents of other races and also helpful in raising girls. The emphases of this book is on young black boys but the subject matter is universal. Think of this book like a street named Martin Luther King, any person can drive on the street but the name emphasizes black leadership.
Here is the background behind the book. A black family (actually two different families) enroll their son into a predominately white private school. The child enters via a scholarship that the school provides to help diversify the school. The parents are so excited that they decide to video tape the kid's experiences throughout his years at the school. The parents have about 13 years of video showing the trials and tribulations that their son, Idris, goes through. Idris's mother is a lawyer and his father is a psychiatrist, both of Idris' parents went to well known colleges.
This book will provide parents with tools they can use to support their children in emotional and educational ways. An example of what you might see in the book is something like this, *a large percentage of black babies arrive preterm meaning they arrive before the brain, heart, lungs, and other organs are optimally developed*. Then the authors go on to explain what can be done to decrease the chances of having a preterm baby.
✔The chapters in this book are as follows:
Introduction
1. Close the Gap Before it Opens
2. Build Your Son's Brain
3. Be His First Teacher
4. Put His Armor On
5. Hug Him and Tell him you Love him
6. You Brought him into this world, don't let other folks take him out.
7. Protect him from time bandits
8. Education to match his needs
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