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Beautiful Failures
Beautiful Failures | Lucy Clark
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"I want to tell you a story about my daughter, my beautiful failure. Every day of her high school life was a struggle. She woke up in the morning and the thought of going to school was like an enormous mountain to climb. 'Nothing will ever be as easy as your school years,' well-meaning adults told her, but I knew for my daughter, and for many kids who have struggled as square pegs trying to make themselves round, this was dead wrong. When Lucy Clark's daughter graduated from school a 'failure', she started asking questions about the way we measure success. Why is there so much pressure on kids today? Where does it come from? Most importantly, as we seem to be in the grip of an epidemic of anxiety, how can we reduce that pressure? Beautiful Failures explores, through personal experience and journalistic investigation, a broken education system that fails too many kids and puts terrible pressure on all kids, including those who 'succeed'. It challenges accepted wisdoms about schooling, calls on parents to examine their own expectations, and questions the purpose of education, and indeed the purpose of childhood."
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BookNAround
Beautiful Failures | Lucy Clark
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I had to scroll back more than three years for my first #bookhaul post. Like so many others, I wasn‘t savvy enough to use the hashtag then though. I haven‘t read a single one of these yet (yikes!). My daughter has read one of them though if that counts. 😂 #bookhaulchallenge @Lcsmcat

Lcsmcat Of course it counts - we‘re raising readers. 😀 5y
BookNAround @Lcsmcat I can‘t guarantee she read the one in the picture because I apparently bought it twice and gave her one. She is indeed my biggest reader (she‘s 20) and now keeps a list of books she‘s asked for at the bookstore that I don‘t buy because I already have them. LOL! (edited) 5y
LeahBergen I‘m afraid to look back at mine as I have a sneaking suspicion I‘m in the same boat as you. 😆😆 5y
Hooked_on_books It makes me so happy that you haven‘t read any yet. We are kindred spirits! 5y
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LibrarianRyan
Beautiful Failures | Lucy Clark

I have failed at the #bfc2 this last 2 weeks. I got my books read but that‘s about it. I‘m opting out of round three currently, but I‘ll try again when things calm down.

Crazeedi No such thing as failure!!! Its all good!!🙂 5y
wanderinglynn What @Crazeedi said - no such thing as failure. You made great progress. But sometimes life happens. Several folks are unofficially doing Round 3, so feel free to join in when you can. 😀 5y
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RebelReader
Beautiful Failures | Lucy Clark
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Ending time for #24B4Monday. Obviously I didn‘t make 24 hours of reading, but I think this is my best time ever and I did read:
2 whole books-A Ladder to the Sky and We Have Always Lived in the Castle.
Finished one Born A Crime on audio
Started The Female Persuasion 73 pages in

Not a total failure and you know what they say....If at first you don‘t succeed.....🤣🤣

ElishaLovesBooks Great job!!! 6y
tammysue 👏🏻☺️ 6y
Andrew65 Well done! 🙌🙌 6y
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BeansPage Awesome job!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 6y
Aimeesue Two books read is in no way a failure! Hope you enjoyed them! 6y
Mollyanna You did wonderful. Congrats on getting those two books completed. 👍🏻 6y
Reviewsbylola Great job! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 6y
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erzascarletbookgasm
Beautiful Failures | Lucy Clark
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Sigh..it happens, right? Tell me I'm not alone..😁

Riveted_Reader_Melissa You are not alone! 8y
Riveted_Reader_Melissa *Why did I here the creepy Chiller Halloween commercial voice in my head as I typed that? 😱 8y
Dragon You are not alone.📚 8y
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[DELETED] 1250735911 Same here! 🤓 8y
PetuniaCraftyKneecaps This is me. This is my real life struggles 8y
LeahBergen Sigh 8y
Leelee08 This is me. All day, every day. 8y
kspenmoll Never alone!📚📚📚📚📚 8y
Eyelit You're in good company 😃 8y
I-read-and-eat All the time 😂 8y
JustTrish Hello, my name is Trish and I am a book addict. It's been 12 hours since my last binge 😁📚 8y
tpixie 📚📚📚📚 8y
Neymarbread_11 🤐😰😶 8y
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