50 Rules Kids Won't Learn in School

50 Rules Kids Won't Learn in School by Charles J. Sykes




Rule 1. Life is not fair. Get used to it.

The average teenager uses the phrase "It's not fair" 8.6 times a day. You cannot control the unfairness of the world. What you can control is the way you react. 


Rule 2.  The real world won't care as much as your school does about your self-esteem. It'll expect you to accomplish something before you feel good about yourself. 

You can't control the unfairness of the world. What you can control is the way you react. 


Rule 3.  Sorry, you will not make sixty thousand dollars a year right out of high school. And you will not be a vice-president or have a company car. You may even have to wear a uniform that does not have a designer label. 


Rule 4. You are not entitled... (to everything your parents have, or everything you see on TV or in magazines. You will have to work for all of it. And then figure out how to pay for it).


Rule 5. No matter what your daddy says, you are not a princess. . .

Princess have better hopes than her/his parents either continue to foot the bill or leaver her/him a boatload of money in their wills; she/he marries very, very well; she/he wins the lottery; or she/he founds a compnay that comes up with a solution to global warming, a cure for cancer, or an explanation for Britney Spears' Marriage to Keven Federline.  Otherwise, life is likely to be a letdown.


Rule 6.  No, you cannot be everything you dream . . .   

. . . unless you have the talent, education, and commitment to work for it. 

Rule 7.  If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.  She/he won't have tenure, so she/he will tend to be a bit edgier. When you screw up, she/he is not going to ask you how you feel about it.