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

by Sylvia B. Rimm

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

¸  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

Genres: Parenting

352 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1990

About the author

Dr. Sylvia Rimm’s nine years as a contributing correspondent to NBC’s Today Show and as a favorite personality on public radio make her a familiar child psychologist to many audiences.

Dr. Rimm is a psychologist, director of Family Achievement Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio, and is a clinical professor at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine. Families come from all over the United States for help.

She has authored many books including How to Parent So Children Will Learn and Why Bright Kids Get Poor Grades, both 2008 National Best Books award winners from USA Book News. In addition, Dr. Rimm has written Growing Up Too Fast: The Rimm Report on the secret Lives of America’s Middle Schoolers, Keys to Parenting the Gifted Child, Raising Preschoolers, See Jane Win®, How Jane Won, and See Jane Win for Girls.

See Jane Win®, a New York Times Bestseller, was featured on the Oprah Winfrey and Today shows and in People Magazine. Her book, Rescuing the Emotional Lives of Overweight Children, was a finalist for the Books for a Better Life Award. Many parents and educators seek Dr. Rimm’s help through her books, tapes, q-cards, and newsletters.

In her parenting column, Dr. Rimm answers hundreds of letters each year from parents and grandparents in her nationally syndicated column with Creators Syndicate.

Dr. Rimm speaks and publishes internationally on family and school approaches to guiding children toward achievement, parenting, and the lives of teenagers. She is a dynamic speaker who fascinates audiences, speaking on many topics, tailoring her educational talks to the special themes of the audience.

Dr. Rimm draws experience and inspiration from her wonderful husband; her very successful children: 2 daughters and 2 sons, and their spouses; and 9

Dr. Rimm's expertise on gifted children, parenting, families, teens and tweens, and many more topics, makes her an excellent psychologist, author, columnist and speaker.

Reviews

[Mayar Hassan · Rating 4 out of 5]

كتاب مفيد يعرض مجموعة من الاستراتيجيات للآباء وأولياء الأمور لتربية أطفالهم، وكيفية قيام الأسرة بتعزيز التعلم من جانب الطفل ودعمه وغرس حب القراءة ومهارات الاستكشاف لدى الأطفال من الصغر، كما يتناول الكتاب موضوعات مختلفة تدور في نفس الأطار كالإفراط في اللوم أو الثناء والتعزيز الإيجابي، والإبداع والتظاهر والموهبة والتفكير الابتكاري

[Alina Rubin · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a helpful, realistic guide for parents and caregivers to help their children do better in school and other activities. Dr. Rimm's voice is non-judgmental and compassionate. I've learned many helpful strategies from this book.

[Marcie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love the teachings in this book. Interesting and kept my attention.

[Mariam al-Husseini]

I'm still reading it, almost done. It offers good advice that all parents could apply. Of course I have no clue why I'm reading it, since I am childless (heck I'm not ever married:P) and hardly think I'd remember all this 5 years from now:) but all the same, good read.

[Megan Ringrose]

dnf. Seems to view children as a combative entity to be managed, not a human being to work as a team with.