Oh, the Places You'll Go! by Dr. Seuss
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Book Reviews of Oh, the Places You'll Go!
Book Review: Appropriate Confidence-Building for Children of All Ages!
Summary: 5 Stars
Researchers constantly find that reading to children is valuable in a variety of ways, not least of which are instilling a love of reading and improved reading skills. With better parent-child bonding from reading, your child will also be more emotionally secure and able to relate better to others. Intellectual performance will expand as well. Spending time together watching television fails as a substitute. To help other parents apply this advice, as a parent of four I consulted an expert, our youngest child, and asked her to share with me her favorite books that were read to her as a young child. Oh, the Places You'll Go! was one of her picks.
This book describes a future filled with unlimited potential ('you can steer any direction you choose'), success ('you'll pass the whole gang and you'll soon take the lead'), set-backs ('you can get all hung up on a prickle-ly perch'), and overcoming obstacles ('somehow you'll escape all that waiting and staying').
Many will mischaracterize this book. Since it starts with the words, 'Congratulations! Today is your day.', some will see it only in the context of some special event. At one level, it could certainly be a graduation present for a high school or college grad. At another level, it can be given to those who are moving on from one school to another. You can also see it as a gift for any transition, even if from one grade to the next.
But, I think that the more important application of this book is in setting a standard of parental beliefs for your child about one's child's future life. Psychologists in book after book tell us that parents tend not to be supportive enough, and that teenagers and adult children feel that they have never lived up to their parents' standards. This book can play a very important role in conveying what those standards are and making them match up nicely with what will probably occur in your child's life. That's a tremendous resource, and one that all of us should avail outselves of! In particular, the end says, 'And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed.). Notice, that the guarantee comes after faithfully pointing out that the path to success is never straight, that there will be setbacks, and that there will be self-doubt and delays. Hearing that guarantee in the context of the likely difficulties makes one realize that optimism and perserverance are what is being encouraged here. Also, setbacks and delays are merely that ... not failure or failing to meet parental standards.
Psychologists tell us that those who believe they can succeed will put up twice the effort of those who doubt their success.
So after thinking about it, I propose that the day to give this book to someone who has never seen it before is on the darkest day of their life, when all seems bleak and impossible. It may make all of the difference. The gift will be all the more meaningful if you (or someone else) read this book to them when they were younger.
With your children, the right time to introduce this book is as young as possible, so that the belief in their success and the realistic challenges of success will be grounded as soon and as deeply as possible.
So you may give this book as a gift to the same child many times in a lifetime. But don't leave out those who need it who are not your children! They need it even more if their parents did not read Oh, the Places You'll Go! to them as a child!
After you have read this book to your child or given it as a gift to someone else, consider the other ways that you can appropriately boost the self-confidence of that person. Telling a story about your own setbacks and how you overcame them may help. Making yourself more human will also bring you closer together!
Book Review: Places you'll Go!
Summary: 5 Stars
"Congratulations! Today is your day. You're off to Great Places! You're off and away!" Oh, the Places You'll Go!, by Dr. Seuss is an inspirational book and characterized by uplifting messages that transcend age and encourage positive attitudes and self esteem to generations of people. Whether you are graduating high school or college, getting a job or retiring, this book will provide timeless messages that evoke and encourage a beneficial attitude throughout the generations. I have read this book many times and each time the memories of events passed are brought to mind, as well as hope for events to come. "You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go." Seuss reflects positive attitude and self-esteem using his prose to encourage the message he is trying to get across to readers. He uses simple words and rhymes to enforce the idea; a book for the ages. This book is easily readable for anyone from the age of four to eighty four and applicable to the times in between. It can be especially relevant and helpful during transitional phases. Seuss inspires, that you have the ability to take yourself places and make something of yourself. "You'll join the high fliers who soar to high heights." Oh, the Places you'll Go!, shows that you can go to high heights in life as long as you maintain a positive attitude and esteem you can accomplish anything. Seuss' message also includes, "but sometimes you won't." Life isn't always easy, there will be, "bang-ups and hang-ups", along the way. But the point he makes is to not let those get you down and get out of your rut, escape those unhappy times for good times to come. "Oh, the places you'll go! There is fun to be done! There are points to be scored. There are games to be won." Whether you get hung up, still be positive for there is something that will happen which will be good to you. The message Seuss gives his readers about achieving goals and gaining success and happiness are timeless and will be prevalent for many years to come. "and will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and ¾ percent guaranteed.) KID, YOU'LL MOVE MOUNTAINS!" I have read Oh, the Places you'll Go!, many times in the past year. When there are times of transition or struggle in my life the uplifting message Seuss reminds me to get out of my rut, get out of "the waiting place" and move on to the better things to come. I received this book as a high school senior as a present for graduation because it encourages me to think that there are bigger and better things to be achieved so I shouldn't wait for something to happen, but go out and make it happen. Oh, the Places you'll Go!, by Dr. Seuss engulfs the imagination and provides a vision of success and achievement for people of all ages at any time in their live. It is a book that transcends age and time, in which Seuss provides many people the opportunity to read this book and provide them with positive attitudes and achievement. "So... be your name Buxbaum or Bixby or Bray or Mordecai Ali Van Allen O'Shea, you're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your Mountain is waiting. So... get on your way!Book Review: The Chief Rabbit Reviews Oh, the Places You'll Go
Summary: 5 Stars
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Good Morning, Social Rabbit here with your guide to the world of social media.
You may think that Oh, the Places You'll Go! by Dr. Seuss is an unusual choice for the book review, however, this is a fantastic business book. It has been ranked in the top 10 of business books of all time! The reason I choose it is because you can read so much into it, it can be used for lots of different aspects of business and social media is one of them.
Here are some extracts from the book which can help you with your social media marketing...
You'll look up and down streets. Look `em over with care.
About some you will say, "I don't choose to go there."
With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet
you're too smart to go down any not-so-good street
And you may not find any
you'll want to go down.
In that case, of course,
you'll head straight out of town
Get it? Use your head and choose your social networks carefully and don't feel you need to stay where everyone else is, do what's right for you.
You will come to a place where the streets are not marked.
Some windows are lighted. But mostly they're darked.
A place you could sprain both your elbow and chin!
Do you dare to stay out? Do you dare to go in?
How much can you lose? How much can you win?
And IF you go in, should you turn left or right...
or right-and-three-quarters? Or, maybe, not quite?
Or go around back and sneak in from behind?
Simple it's not, I'm afraid you will find,
for a mind-maker-upper to make up his mind.
This place where the streets are not marked is for many of us social media, we don't know which way to turn, how to make up our minds on the best way to go. It's all about exploration and trying things to see if they work and if they don't then change them.
You'll get mixed up, of course,
as you already know.
You'll get mixed up
with many strange birds as you go.
So be sure when you step.
Step with care and great tact
and remember that Life's
a Great Balancing Act.
Just never forget to be dexterous and deft.
And never mix up your right foot with your left.
Words of encouragement, but also words of warning, you can't be complacent and stick with the same all the way along, you need to balance and change things up.
I love this book, and will often go back and read it, as it is all about life's ups and downs, but also encouraging, and enlightening if you can apply the lessons in it to what you are dealing with in business.
Check it out and have a laugh, remember to make it fun and your readers will enjoy it to!
Next week there will be a more "serious" book, but until then enjoy your social media exploits.
Book Review: Where do we go from here? Anywhere at all...
Summary: 5 Stars
Oh, The Places You'll Go is yet another wonderful book written by that genius Dr. Seuss. In this book children are encouraged to explore the world and to avoid letting a bad experience hinder them from exploring more new places and things. Naturally, younger children will also profit from this book as a tool to learn how to read and sound out new words as they increase their vocabulary at the same time. Great!
The book starts by asking children to use their imaginations to think up what the real world might be like out there; and parents can help their children by teaching them about the world out there, too. This sets things up for an exciting and educational discussion between parent and child about the real world out there. Seuss clearly puts the child in the driver's seat when he writes "and YOU are the guy who'll decide where to go." Seuss encourages kids to always strive to explore while being creative and open to new things; Seuss writes that "you'll pass the whole gang and you'll soon take the lead." Can you imagine how stimulating that must be to a young child just breaking out of their shell? It's very good.
However, Seuss remains honest about life. This book also teaches young children that sometimes they may not like a certain place they've come to but that they should never let that discourage them from going on to bigger and better things once more.
The text has great rhyming and the illustrations are wonderful.
The hardcover book can withstand accidental attempts to damage it without breaking at all; and the paper quality is rather good, too.
Overall, this fine book from Dr. Seuss is indispensable for encouraging young children to explore the world around them and to never quit. Younger children can also benefit from this book as they learn to read and improve their vocabularies.
Book Review: Knowing and Going
Summary: 5 Stars
Of Seuss-an reviews this is the thirdLikely my last, mostly absurd
But I had to think of life's general direction
And that brought me to this little reflection
The places we go
The places we know
The things that we show
The hearts that all glow
Life is but a journey friend
And friend with friend up till the end
We should be happy and we should be free
You should be you and I'll just be me
And OH, OH, the places we'll go
We'll go hither and we'll go fro
Over the rainbow and under a smile
Making the light year seem less than a mile
My own trek is one through theology
Determined it feels by biology
And compels me upon my wonderful way
And never doubting it for a day
That this is where I'm called to be
This is what I'm charged to see
By some much grander holy light
Which may someday give me greater sight
And until then the faith I'll hold
To try to make the journey bold
So that everyplace will feel like home
For everyplace is someone's home
Be it brown or be it blue
In a castle or a shoe
In the up and out the down
Journeying through every town
And still there will be more places to go
Still more ways in which we can grow
But may we never outgrow the Seuss
For then, dear friends, life's not much use
This is a lesser-known Dr. Seuss book, but still a great story and great learning device. This is especially well suited for children who are going through a transition or change in life, to show them in a cute and memorable way that life is journey in and of itself, and that there are good things to be found when leaving the security and safety of home.
An excellent text for children who may be nervous about going to school, going on a trip, or major life changes, this book is real treasure.