Navigating Life: Things I Wish My Mother Had Told Me
by Margaux Bergen /
2017 / English / PDF
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An inspiring, piercingly honest user's guide to life, written
for the author's daughter and given to her on her first day of
college, reflecting tough lessons about family, work, and
marriage.
An inspiring, piercingly honest user's guide to life, written
for the author's daughter and given to her on her first day of
college, reflecting tough lessons about family, work, and
marriage.
You learn a few useful things at school--the three Rs come in
handy, and it's good to know how to perform under pressure and wait
your turn--but most of what matters, what makes you into a
functioning human being, able to hold your own in conversation,
find your path, know what to avoid in relationships and secure a
meaningful job, no teacher will ever tell you. This diamond-sharp,
gut-punchingly honest book of hard-earned wisdom is one mother's
effort to equip her daughter for survival in the real world.
You learn a few useful things at school--the three Rs come in
handy, and it's good to know how to perform under pressure and wait
your turn--but most of what matters, what makes you into a
functioning human being, able to hold your own in conversation,
find your path, know what to avoid in relationships and secure a
meaningful job, no teacher will ever tell you. This diamond-sharp,
gut-punchingly honest book of hard-earned wisdom is one mother's
effort to equip her daughter for survival in the real world.
Margaux Bergen began writing this book when her daughter Charlotte
turned nine and gave it to her right after graduation from high
school, when she was setting off for her first day of college. "I
am not writing this to groom or guide you to professional or
academic success," she writes. "My goal is rather to give you tools
that might help you engage with the world and flourish. . . . Think
of this as a kind of developing bath-time wisdom."
Margaux Bergen began writing this book when her daughter Charlotte
turned nine and gave it to her right after graduation from high
school, when she was setting off for her first day of college. "I
am not writing this to groom or guide you to professional or
academic success," she writes. "My goal is rather to give you tools
that might help you engage with the world and flourish. . . . Think
of this as a kind of developing bath-time wisdom."
Wise, heartbreakingly funny, and resonantly true,
Wise, heartbreakingly funny, and resonantly true,Navigating
Life
Navigating
Life has invaluable lessons for students of life of all ages.
It will challenge you to lead a more meaningful life and to tackle
the bumps along the way with grace, grit, style, and ingenuity.
What
has invaluable lessons for students of life of all ages.
It will challenge you to lead a more meaningful life and to tackle
the bumps along the way with grace, grit, style, and ingenuity.
WhatThe Blessings of a Skinned Knee
The Blessings of a Skinned Knee did for the early years
of parenting,
did for the early years
of parenting,Navigating Life
Navigating Life does for the next, far more
perilous chapter, when new graduates are cast out on the high seas
and have to learn to swim and find their way by themselves.
does for the next, far more
perilous chapter, when new graduates are cast out on the high seas
and have to learn to swim and find their way by themselves.From the Hardcover edition.
From the Hardcover edition.