/24-7PressRelease/ - SCOTTSDALE, AZ, June 28, 2008 - Letters from parents come pouring in by the thousands. Non-Materialistic Mom seeks advice about rewarding her children for good grades. Musical Mother is uncertain about how to handle her twins' desperate pleas to quit their piano lessons, while Faithful Reader with ADHD Son isn't sure whether or not to give his nine-year-old Ritalin to solve his underachievement issues.
Mom and dads are often bewildered about parenting. They become baffled when their once bright, happy child suddenly "shuts down" to learning. What can parents do?
Dr. Sylvia Rimm, parenting expert and author of How to Parent So Children Will Learn: Strategies for Raising Happy, Achieving Children (released May 2008), says parents have the greatest effect on their child's attitude toward learning. Families need a game plan, some rules, and some reasonably clear strategies and goals—and this NY Times best-selling author and former NBC Today show correspondent provides practical parent pointers to assure a love of learning and accomplishment in children.
Underachievement Syndrome is an epidemic, according to Dr. Rimm, also the author of Why Bright Kids Get Poor Grades: And What You Can Do About It (released June 2008). Millions of children are simply not performing to their potential. Whether it's social or emotional factors that are to blame, it is important to prevent and counteract underachievement to keep kids from squandering educational resources, testing their teachers' patience, initiating family chaos, and depleting their confidence and self-control. Dr. Rimm provides step-by-step recommendations for parents and teachers to motivate and inspire children to achieve to their potential, feel good about themselves, and have a positive impact on society. Society needs them.
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