Ready or Not, Here Life Comes,   ISBN:B000IFS0EK

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Very enlightening book. Wonderful insight that will help me in raising my own children and myself. I've been recommending this book to others. Very thankful and impressed with the speed of delivery and great condition of the book. Love to save money!

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I found this book as I have many of his books to be a great foundation to helping understand these kids. This one is even more practical as it tgives good insight and steps to help young people enter the world productively; Special Ed or Reg Ed it is great! I good resource foor kids and adults in preparing for transition!

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This book is a excellent resource tool for educators of all ages, no matter what professional role in the school.

We must continue to learn ways to encourage, enhance, challenge and enable
today's youth to discover their personal goals is life. What can be targeted, through their talents, yet giving them a reason for not giving up. We all have a purpose to fulfill in life. Just need to be challenged, guided to find out what it is!

This information can also be used with parents/ guardians who need insight for their child to find a healthy balance, while tackling the teenage years, peer pressures and other obstacles faced. Any guidance counselor, should consider this book, mine could have benefitted- no clue where to direct my future goals in life.

Like that old saying goes... " Don't judge a book by it's cover.", any books written by Dr.Levine are worth considering.

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Another good book to read by Mel Levine. His books are very informative and you do learn alot from him.

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Mel Levine's basic proposition is that our culture is dysfunctional in its ability to transition young adults, whom he calls "startup adults", from high school and college to productive working lives and careers. Levine passes blame all around - youth culture's fascination with being "cool" and instant gratification, the public school system and higher ed. system's failure to prepare students for reality, etc. Levine presents a simple four-part framework for understanding and dealing with the problems he identifies.

I honestly can't disagree with Levine's observations and conclusions, although I find his approach to be somewhat predictable and trivial. Yes, there is a problem, and yes, we can be teaching our young people better about life's stages and transitions. Perhaps we can even do some good if we follow Levine's prescription for setting things right.

However, I think Levine is best understood as a product of his generation, specifically the Dr. Spock, baby-boom, "Me" generation. Although Levine has identified some legitimate problems, he rings hollow because he comes off like the next in a long line of navel-gazing baby-boomers. As such, he seems to have a blind spot for the failings of his own generation and its guiding "Me" philosophy, and so ends up treating symptoms rather than the true disease.

Perhaps I'm reading too much into all this, since I am inherently suspicious of all things related to his generation. As I said, taken on its own, Levine makes some good observations and offers some advice that may be helpful. However, I can honestly say that I can't read one more book like this w/o thinking, "ENOUGH ALREADY!"