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Praise forThat Crumpled Paper Was Due Last Week

That Crumpled Paper Was Due Last Week provides an innovative and practical approach to helping boys find success. Ana Homayoun presents straightforward, easily implementable solutions that will help transform the lives of boys and parents. A wonderful read!

Michael Gurian, author of The Wonder of Boys and The Minds of Boys

Ana Homayoun gets it! Combining an extraordinary feel for what boys face in schools these days with an enormously shrewd, practical set of tips on how to get organized and excel, this book hits a home run. All parents and teachers as well as students (yes, I think girls could find it useful, too!) will find that this book makes school less of a struggle and more of a pleasure. Brief, to the point, and clear, this book is an invaluable, unique tool.

Edward Hallowell, MD, author of
Superparenting for ADD and Driven to Distraction

Filled with practical advice for the parents of disorganized boys (and thats an awful lot of young boys), Ana Homayouns That Crumpled Paper Was Due Last Week teaches us how to help our sons navigate through a school environment that is less than kind to distracted and disorganized young men.

Madeline Levine, PhD, author of The Price of Privilege

To Mrs. Ellen Goldberg, my fourth grade teacher, who taught me the
importance of looking for and respecting the personal potential within myself
and in others.

To my parents, Amir and Bahereh, whose own dreams paved the way for
my possibilities.

INTRODUCTION

Many educators and researchers believe there is currently a crisis in boys education, and if youve picked up this book, you may already be aware of it. Male students are, on average, between six months and a year behind their female counterparts when they start high school, and the girls stay ahead right through their senior year.

The problem is clear to the parents who come into my office for the first time, typically at their wits end and sometimes near tears. The boy that they know to be smart, witty, thoughtful, and/or brilliant cant remember to turn in his homework and is failing several classes. The son who was absolutely precious as a young child started slipping as a middle schooler and has now become a headache of a teenager who just this morning forgot his English essay on the printer, has no idea that he has two tests tomorrow, and still needs to return his uniform for a school sport that ended two weeks ago.

Sound familiar?

If youre one of these troubled parents, you know that todays academic environment is exponentially more challenging than the one in which you grew upand in ways that tend to be more difficult for boys than for girls. Research suggests that boys often struggle with certain kinds of multi-tasking, and yet schools often ask them to juggle seven different classes, short- and long-term assignments, and multiple sports and activities, all while they are going through puberty. But even armed with this knowledge and a lot of encouragement, the parents I meet for the first time in my office still cant seem to help their sons get ahead and stay ahead of their workload and schedule. Why? Because they dont have the tools to arm their sons for the challenges they face, and too often the result is frustration, fights, and, sadly, a bright boy convinced he cant succeed. Without the essential tools to thrive as students and

Without the essential tools to thrive as students and as individuals, these boys are at risk of giving up before ever finding their own true version of success.

as individuals, these boys are at risk of giving up before ever finding their own true version of success.

So whats a parent to do in the face of this seemingly stacked deck? The answer is surprisingly simple; you help your son take control of his heavy load of responsibilities by using organizational techniques specifically designed for preteen and teenage boys. These tools allow him to focus on each task, one at a time, until each one is taken care of, essentially transforming a daunting multi-tasking challengedealing with homework, sports, activities, family life, and the social sceneinto a more tangible single-tasking effort; that is, doing one thing at a time, and doing it well. Once that hardwired organizational hurdle is overcome, your sons natural enthusiasm, intelligence, and vigor are unleashed and available to propel him toward success in academics and life.

This book describes those techniques in detail, and its a result of my years of hands-on experience as an educational consultant, working with situations like yours. Most important, its designed to work for your family, in your home. Over the years, parents have taken the techniques I offer here and applied them to their own situations with great success, whether their families are well-to-do or of modest means; nuclear or multi-household; large or small. Disorganization crosses all economic and ethnic barriers, and my experience demonstrates that boys as young as the fifth and sixth grade can adapt incremental habits that help them feel more organized, motivated, and in control of their own destiny. Although I can say with complete assurance that these tools arent magic, the results have been described by more than one parent as miraculous.

I still remember a spring afternoon when the problem of disorganized and vulnerable boys came into sharp focus for me. Id founded Green Ivy Educational Consulting a few years before, and through my academic training and our experience in the office working with young people, Id already developed most of the organizational system and study tips outlined in this book.

However, on this particular day I was meeting with the parents of a tenth grade boy. The young man was getting mostly Cs and was generally disorganized and underprepared. Midway through our meeting, the father looked desperately at me and asked, Ana, be straight with meis my son the only one like this? I hesitated and quickly ran through our client list in my head. I realized at that moment that nearly 75 percent of our students were boys, and I confirmed then what I had suspected all along, that the young men we were working with werent unusual at all. I grew to understand more and more how boys are often different from girls when it comes to organization, time management, and study skillsa fact well known to many parents with both sons and daughters.

I shouldnt have been surprisedin my work with hundreds of kids Id discovered that only rarely were the boys failures due to difficulties with the classroom material. Instead, symptoms of chronic disorganizationlosing completed homework, forgetting about tests, and not turning in assignmentswere by far the bigger culprits in their dismal performance. And worse, because these failures also diminished their personal self-confidence and self-esteem, these boys had started to see themselves as failures in all aspects of their livesa very sad and scary progression, which led to even more misery and disillusionment.

As I helped some of these students become better organized and more able to effectively and efficiently complete their schoolwork, I watched the same boys who walked into my office with five brown grocery bags worth of unsorted school papers become young men who planned out their time and turned in their assignments when they were due. But more important, over time I also witnessed an amazing transformation in their personal self-confidence and self-esteem. As they began to improve in school, these boys began to explore, dream, and discover a level of success they had previously thought unfathomablein essence, they set their mind to achieve what were once their craziest dreams, and over time, those dreams started to come true. One young man received a scholarship to a school that was once academically out of reach, and another snagged a walk-on spot to a Division I basketball program a mere two years after he was warming the bench as a member of his junior varsity basketball team.

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