{"id":86,"date":"2005-06-26T11:48:55","date_gmt":"2005-06-26T03:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=86"},"modified":"2012-04-23T08:43:34","modified_gmt":"2012-04-23T00:43:34","slug":"the-7-habits-of-highly-effective-teens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/learning\/the-7-habits-of-highly-effective-teens-86","title":{"rendered":"The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> by Sean Covey<br \/>\nFireside Books, 1998<\/p>\n<div class=\"imgRt\" style=\"width:190px\"><img src='\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2012\/04\/7habits_sm2.gif' alt='7habits' \/><\/div>\n<p><strong>A Summary Review<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sean Covey is the son of the (highly successful)  Stephen Covey who wrote &quot;The 7 Habits of Highly  Effective People&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>The book suffers somewhat from the &quot;Oprah  Syndrome&quot; - it is on occasions rather saccharine and      simplistic in that 'we can fix your problem in one page,  or on a one-hour TV show', so favoured by many Americans.   (He even quotes Oprah here and there).<\/p>\n<p>However, there are some gems in the book, particularly  when it comes to advice on educational issues. I would        recommend the book for any teenage students since  many of them would benefit from the suggestions given. My   own 13-year old daughter read it and found it useful.<\/p>\n<p>Some examples of the advice given:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reduce &quot;screentime&quot; (defined as anytime    spent in front of a computer, TV, video game or                movie) (p. 220)<\/li>\n<li>&quot;Don't let school be your only form of                education. Let the world be your campus... Take                 additional classes, check out books and see                movies about the topic [that you don't                enjoy].&quot; (p 216).<\/li>\n<li>&quot;Don't let school get in the way of your                education&quot; (p. 219)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The book is peppered with anecdotes, often on themes        related to school.. One of these was about the author        going to a car maintenance course and achieving an A        grade, but admitting that he just rote learned the        material and still couldn't fix a car. (p 220)<\/p>\n<p>Another story concerned a boy with an alcoholic father        who beat him whenever he caught him reading (p. 227) He        ended up hiding in a library and went on to become an        editor and author.<\/p>\n<p><b>Assessment<\/b><\/p>\n<p>He has some interesting things to say (p. 146) about        assessment in the story about his college class that had        90 students and it was announced that 9 of them would        fail the semester.So he worked hard at not losing,        including not sharing ideas with his classmates.        [Educational institutions have a lot to answer for...]<\/p>\n<p>Covey tells a striking story in the &quot;Caring for        Your Brain&quot; section (p. 216 - and I am        paraphrasing). A young man goes to Socrates one day and        says &quot;I want to know everything you know&quot;.        Socrates shoved the young man's head under water of the        river until he was gasping for air. The young man        complained bitterly and Socrates replied &quot;When you        want to learn as badly as you wanted to breathe just now,        then come back and see me.&quot; [Moral: There is no such        thing as a free lunch...]<\/p>\n<p><b>Time Management<\/b><\/p>\n<p>It seems to me that one of the biggest problems for        our students is time management. The book offers some        good suggestions on this topic (p. 107). He suggests 4        time quadrants, with not important\/important on one axis        and urgent\/not urgent on the other. He then discusses the        4 types in the quadrants and suggests strategies for        dealing with each type:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Procrastinator<\/li>\n<li>The Prioritiser<\/li>\n<li>The Yes-Man<\/li>\n<li>The Slacker<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This softcover book is recommended for those occasions when you are        counselling students who are having a rough time coping        with life and school. It would also be good for your own        teenage children to read it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"alt\">See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/learning\/the-7-habits-of-highly-effective-teens-86#comments\" id=\"comms\">1 Comment<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Sean Covey Fireside Books, 1998 A Summary Review Sean Covey is the son of the (highly successful) Stephen Covey who wrote &quot;The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People&quot;. The book suffers somewhat from the &quot;Oprah Syndrome&quot; - it is on occasions rather saccharine and simplistic in that 'we can fix your problem in one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[124],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}