I'm Getting Ready For Kindergarten

I'm Getting Ready for Kindergarten will help you know how to prepare your child for kindergarten. This all-in-one book includes a children's story to help your child have his questions answered, better understand, and feel more confident in starting "big kids" school. The parent guidance section will help you to be sure what skills and knowledge your child needs to be ready for kindergarten, and what exactly you can do to help prepare your child. You'll also be able to determine which areas your child needs your extra help. This book will enable you to see the whole picture of what is expected in today's kindergarten.
Major topics include:

• Developing emotional and social maturity, including getting along with friends and adults
• Academic preparation, including readiness for reading, writing, and math
• Learning to do what you and teachers ask
• What children should be able to do for themselves and for the family
• Communication, including speech and language readiness
• Coordination, including fine and gross motor skills
• Developing good daily routines for low stress kindergarten days

This book will also help you if you're uncertain about sending your child to kindergarten this Fall or next. It will help you and your spouse make a more confident decision.

Dr. Annye Rothenberg is a child/parent psychologist and mother with more than 25 years of experience helping families with children from birth to age 10 years dealing with typical child-rearing issues. Her experience doing home and school observations means her guidance and insight are specific and realistic in all of her two-part books for parents and their children.

Annye Rothenberg, Ph.D., is a San Francisco Bay Area child/parent psychologist with 25 years of experience and a specialist in child-rearing and child development. Her parenting psychology practice is in Redwood City, CA. She currently guides families with children up through age ten, and her advice is particularly realistic and practical because of her home and school observations. She frequently gives talks to groups of parents as well as teachers and pediatricians. She is, of course, a parent. Her first series of six books focuses on the most common child-rearing issues for preschoolers and their parents. Her new series is for elementary-school children as well as their parents. All of these books have an all-in-one format with a beautifully illustrated, realistic story for children and a comprehensive manual for parents. She is also an adjunct clinical assistant professor of pediatrics at Stanford University School of Medicine, teaching pediatric residents how to give advice to parents on child-rearing. Dr. Rothenberg spent many years developing and directing an award-winning parenting program in Palo Alto, CA, and has written several books for professionals, including Parentmaking, used throughout the U.S. and Canada for teaching parenting classes. For more information on her books, visit the Perfecting Parenting Press website.