Education for Life

The book by the renowned psychologist Olga Yurkovskaya is a practical guide for those who want to give their child the best education.
Many understand that the quality of traditional education leaves much to be desired - the school curriculum is... overloaded with unnecessary and uninteresting subjects for the child, which will never be useful beyond school. School education is focused on the conveyor belt production of convenient, easily manageable performers at the middle and lower levels, who cannot make independent decisions and think critically.
Responsible parents think about their children's future from early childhood. They need reliable information on what effective learning for a child should look like, what to teach, and how to teach it so that it is truly useful both at the moment and in the long term.
The book clearly explains how to help a child form the right attitude towards the learning process, how to instill independence and responsibility for their own results without shifting the burden onto teachers, and how to manage without conflicts with teachers regarding academic performance.
A lot of attention is paid to skills that are not taught at school: housekeeping and self-servicing, the ability to independently solve problems, to see things through to the end, to manage finances, to master the basics of time management and planning, to be independent, to adapt to external changes, and much, much more.
The book describes techniques that significantly increase the overall effectiveness of learning and the prioritization of tasks that must be addressed to achieve the main goal - preparing the child for a successful adult life in the real world.
It also addresses issues that concern parents of homeschoolers: legal aspects of homeschooling in the Russian Federation, who homeschooling is suitable for, what should be taught at home, where to find motivation, how to avoid conflicts with relatives and teachers when transitioning to family education, how to organize home learning and correctly allocate time, how much money will be needed, and how to choose tutors for high school students without making mistakes.
The book contains a wealth of practical conclusions and recommendations from both global home learning experiences and the personal experience of the author. Olga Yurkovskaya's children successfully study at home and prepare to enter the most prestigious universities in the world.
The information in the book will be very useful for those responsible parents who are still hesitant to switch to family education but want to make their child's education many times more qualitative and effective.