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Affluence...
     I had wished my parents had been very rich when I was young. But I learned from this book that wealthy parents can help kids not failing, but cannot make them succeed.
    An interesting fact is that teenagers from wealthy suburban used alcohol, cigarettes,marijuana, and harder illegal drugs much more than low-income teens. 35%of suburban girls had tried those substance, compared with 15% of inner city girls.
     Why wealthy kids fall into drugs?
     Wealthy parents are more likely busy for their career, and so more emotionally distant from their child, but at the same time, insist on high levels of achievement from kids. Excessive achievement pressures and isolation from parents make them depressed.

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Summary of extensive reading on Feb 17,2014

Tough, Paul. How Children Succeed. N.p.: HMH, 2012. 70-80. Print.

I like the idea of "Grit". That's the most needed trait that I think successful people have, as I'm watching the Olympics these days. I think those athletics are fourtune by the fact that they have the passion on life and the sports, whether they win gold medal or not.

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  This book shows several case of charter school and their student, some of them continued to succeed in college education, but some of them were drop out.  From many studies and cases, it is already proven that what make a person live a successful life is not high IQ or GPA score. Character Strengths, such as motivation and volition is necessary to achieve long term goals. Then how to build these characters? I will read more about it.

Extensive reading - how children succeed 1

   There has been increasing number of students who studies well and finish high school early with GED certificate. They go on to college or other post secondary pursuit faster than their same age group.
   How those kids life turn out? Succeed or fail?
   Amazingly, only 3% of them were enrolled in a four-year university, compared to 46% of high school graduates. Their good test score did not seem to haveany positive effect on their life.  
   Then, what traits should children have?