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Overcoming Underachieving: A Simple Plan to Boost Your Kids' Grades and End the Homework Hassles
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
-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.
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
-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.
207 pages, Paperback
First published August 1, 2000
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July 31, 2012
Helpful for parents who need help establishing structure, boundaries and rules (which includes this single mom). Found the chart system for communication between the school teacher and parents too complex and busy; I reduced it to three sentences based on character formation and time management (my biggest concerns).
The section on learning disabilities did not have anything new in it. Too bad ... thought the author would have had more insight and wisdom on that issue.
The section on learning disabilities did not have anything new in it. Too bad ... thought the author would have had more insight and wisdom on that issue.
June 1, 2015
Buku ini cukup lama dibaca, selain untuk bahan intervensi tesis, buku ini nyaman pula dibaca untuk memperkaya konsep mengenai underachiver. Bersyukur juga sempat memiliki copy-an dari buku ini.
Dr. Peters bercerita tentang fenomena anak yang meminjam istilah Rimm (1997) menjadi epidemi. Banyak orang tua atau guru yang mengeluhkan anak-anak yang tidak berprestasi di sekolah. Padalah sepertinya ia mampu. Nah, fenomena ini dijelaskan oleh Rimm dan dilanjutkan oleh Dr Peters sebagai underachievement. Peters menjelaskan enam tipe underachiever yang umum ia temukan dalam penanganan kasus. Ia juga menjelaskan tipe-tipe kesalahan orang tua dala menangani anak dengan underachiever. Di bab-bab terakhir, Peters juga menjelaskan tentang beberapa intervensi yang dapat diberikan kepada anak dengan tipe underachiever tertentu.
Buku ini sebenarnya merupakan salah satu buku wajib kuliah saya, namun gaya penulisannya asik sekali. Terima kasih Peters sudah menjelaskan dengan baik :))
Dr. Peters bercerita tentang fenomena anak yang meminjam istilah Rimm (1997) menjadi epidemi. Banyak orang tua atau guru yang mengeluhkan anak-anak yang tidak berprestasi di sekolah. Padalah sepertinya ia mampu. Nah, fenomena ini dijelaskan oleh Rimm dan dilanjutkan oleh Dr Peters sebagai underachievement. Peters menjelaskan enam tipe underachiever yang umum ia temukan dalam penanganan kasus. Ia juga menjelaskan tipe-tipe kesalahan orang tua dala menangani anak dengan underachiever. Di bab-bab terakhir, Peters juga menjelaskan tentang beberapa intervensi yang dapat diberikan kepada anak dengan tipe underachiever tertentu.
Buku ini sebenarnya merupakan salah satu buku wajib kuliah saya, namun gaya penulisannya asik sekali. Terima kasih Peters sudah menjelaskan dengan baik :))
March 6, 2018
Read this book with my older daughters but did not apply the principles. Just read it again for the next two children, and will be more diligent this time; lots of good constructive advice about preparing your kids for school.
Just read it again in 2018 to help my son. Plan and tactics are spot on!!
Just read it again in 2018 to help my son. Plan and tactics are spot on!!
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February 26, 2009It was ok. I couldn't finish it. It kept harping on all the ways parents are failing their kids. I already am very self critical, didn't need the additional criticism.
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July 21, 2017This wasn't a bad book, just not super applicable to my situation as a home schooling parent and none of the descriptions super fit my kid at this point. I'll come back to it at a later date maybe.
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