Swan, who would be classified Asian American, graduated from high school and was accepted to Stanford University. She always did her homework. At home, the TV was off Monday through Saturday with only an hour or two allowed on Sunday. Swan read “many” books while growing up and did her homework without a fight. Visiting the library weekly was common.
In fact, if all parents created a proper learning environment at home, doing schoolwork and reading follows close behind.
Most kids who attend public schools in the US have as many as 80 teachers before graduating from high school, but only have one or two parents. If the parents learn to say “no” and set the standard for learning, kids will learn—even kids like me, who was so dyslexic when I was six, my mother was told I would never learn to read. Today, I’ve written two award-winning novels and I am this Blog’s host. I’ve also edited and published two books written by other authors.
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Lloyd Lofthouse is the award-winning author of the concubine saga, My Splendid Concubine & Our Hart. When you love a Chinese woman, you marry her family and culture too.
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Hey Lloyd,
I enjoy reading your posts and actually posted on my own blog about your blog as a good source of information on China. I admire your passion and dedication to your blog. It is quite amazing to learn of your dyslexia! You really have accomplished quite a bit in the face of your challenges. Very inspiring!
I just started blogging and hope to improve my blogging abilities to match up with yours. Thanks for the daily inspiration!
Thank you. I added your Blog to the Blogroll on iLook China. I dropped by your site and will return later to read and leave comments. Have you considered a Blogroll? It helps with the links, which in turn may boost your search engine rank. A few months ago, I attended a workshop hosted by Bill Belew ( http://www.billbelew.com/about-bill-belew/ ) and learned a lot about Blogging. Bill stressed the importance of creating networks among similar Blogs. Leaving comments on these Blogs is also important and I admit that I don’t do that as much as I should.
Using what I learned from Belew, I went to work and I’m still learning. May your Blog have good sailing across the Internet.