Overcoming Underachieving: A Simple Plan to Boost Your Kids' Grades and End the Homework Hassles

By Ruth Peters

Book Overview

A parenting specialist and child psychologist helps tackle a headache for parents and kids alike--homework--and gets underachievers back on track. Is your child constantly bored or frustrated at school? Has homework become more of a family crisis than a learning exercise every evening? As any parent of a school-age child can tell you, helping children to achieve at school and get into a good college is a primary concern. Parents are starting to worry about this when their children are still very young, knowing that the work habits and study skills their children develop in elementary school will affect their performance in middle school, high school, and eventually, college. Unfortunately, bad habits on the part of kids and parents can result in poor academic performance and tense parent/child relationships. Now, in Overcoming Underachieving , Dr. Ruth Peters--a trusted child psychologist who has helped thousands of children and their parents solve scholastic problems--tackles kids' academic underachievement head-on, and presents a clear strategy that has worked for her clients and can work for almost all kids who aren't performing as well as they could. With a practical program targeted for parents of children from first through the twelfth grade, this book gives concrete advice about how to- -reward performance -build a child's self-concept -help kids battle apathy -identify common behavioral patterns among parents and children that lead to academic underachievement As the market is inundated with new study aids and guidebooks and expensive tutors, Dr. Peters's straightforward, strategic plan is a breath of fresh air for parents and children. Overcoming Underachieving is the best tool for helping your kids get the better grades they want and deserve.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0767904583
• ISBN13: 9780767904582
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: Harmony
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Proven to work!!

I have "Don't Be Afraid to Discipline". I am a teacher and I recommend it to all of my parents. They buy it, read it, and thank me for recommending something that helps to shed some light on what they do or not do and how to do things better.Kids need limits and parents need someone to remind them of all that good parenting of years ago. One last thought, I have attended some of her seminars personally. Made me a better teacher!!

This is a life saver!

This book was a life saver - it's helped me beyond words! Thanks, thanks, thanks to Dr. Peters for making this available to this very concerned family. I love the daily assignment sheet idea.

Saw you on the TODAY SHOW...

Saw your interview on the TODAY SHOW and it really made sense. I read the book in one sitting and fully agree with the idea that kids need their parents' help and involvement each day to keep them on track in school. I look forward to my sons having great grades this year in school!

Getting off on a good foot

School started here in Floida last week and after reading Dr. Peter's book my 7th grader began the first day of school using the program. It's terrific! This is the first time that she knows what she has to do everyday and actually gets it done. I wish I had known about this system when my son was in high school.

best book on getting kids to do homework!

Finally, a book that is written in a language that the kids and I can understand! The Daily Assignment Sheet works great, and I finally have a way of keeping up with my three son's homework. A must read for any parent!