How to Parent So Children Will Learn: Clear Strategies for Raising Happy, Achieving Children - Softcover

Rimm, Sylvia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 060980121X ISBN 13: 9780609801215

Publisher: Three Rivers Press, 1997

Synopsis

As the Today show's contributing correspondent and the director of the Family Achievement Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio, Dr. Sylvia Rimm is our foremost expert on how to raise children in an environment that encourages learning and achievement. In How to Parent So Children Will Learn, Dr. Rimm gives practical, compassionate, no-nonsense advice for raising happy, secure, and productive children, from preschool to college. Easy-to-follow parent pointers, sample dialogues, and boxed step-by-step examples show parents how to:

¸  Select appropriate rewards and punishments
¸  Decrease arguments and power struggles
¸  Encourage appropriate independence without overempowering your children
¸  Guide your children toward good study habits
¸  Help your children improve test-taking skills
¸  Encourage creativity in your children
¸  Set limits for children

About this title

From the Publisher:

"Dr. Rimm is a welcome voice of calm and reason, someone who offers practical advice, with almost immediate results. She's a guardian angel for families who need a little or a lot of guidance."
--Katie Couric

About the Author:

Dr. Sylvia Rimm, Ph.D., is the director of the Family Achievement Clinic at MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland and a clinical professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. Since 1994, she has served as a contributing correspondent for NBC's Today show. She also hosts a nationally broadcast radio program and writes a syndicated newspaper column on parenting. Dr. Rimm received her master's and doctoral degrees in educational psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is the author of several books, including the best-selling See Jane Win, Raising Preschoolers, and Why Bright Kids Get Poor Grades. A mother of four, she lives in Cleveland with her husband.

About this edition

• Publisher: Three Rivers Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 060980121X
• ISBN 13: 9780609801215
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352