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Summary: 7 Strategies looks at how to create a school-smart home.
Review: 7 Strategies answers the question, What can I as a parent do to create the best possible home environment for my children to experience success and happiness in school? Using the Significant Seven perceptions and skills that identify the capable student as a springboard, the book goes on to describe how to create a home that encourages contribution, wherein family members affirm one another, and that provides an emotionally stable environment that promotes communication, problem solving, and growth in responsibility and self-discipline. 7 Strategies closes with "A Word to Teachers," showing those entrusted to continuing what parents start how to create a classroom environment characterized by the same contribution, affirmation, and emotional stability that is being practiced in the home. This is the book that bridges the gap between the home and the school, offering parents and teachers alike a blueprint for building a community that embraces both their respective spheres. It is the book for a new generation of parents and teachers, a generation that wants to work together and support one another in this most important task of raising capable young people.
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Summary: Where's the Beef?
Review: Does your child's notebook explode upon opening? Does your child do homework every night after supper and yet bring home dozens of missing assignment reports from school? Does your child come home with the book but no idea what the assignment is? Or perhaps with the assignment and not the book? Does your child frequently have no idea what the words of an assignment actually mean? Does your child weep over the tedium of homework assignments whose worth they cannot comprehend? Does your child go off to school in the morning moderately happy but come home looking beaten down by life? Are you looking for help for such a child? If so, don't look for the answers in this book. There is not a whisper of how to help the organizationally-impaired student. (P.S., If anybody knows of such a book, or can write such a book, please let the world know.)
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Summary: Where's the Beef?
Review: Does your child's notebook explode upon opening? Does your child do homework every night after supper and yet bring home dozens of missing assignment reports from school? Does your child come home with the book but no idea what the assignment is? Or perhaps with the assignment and not the book? Does your child frequently have no idea what the words of an assignment actually mean? Does your child weep over the tedium of homework assignments whose worth they cannot comprehend? Does your child go off to school in the morning moderately happy but come home looking beaten down by life? Are you looking for help for such a child? If so, don't look for the answers in this book. There is not a whisper of how to help the organizationally-impaired student. (P.S., If anybody knows of such a book, or can write such a book, please let the world know.)
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Summary: A must read for parents and teachers!
Review: I found this book extremely helpful as both a teacher and mother of three. The insights of Stephen and Michael are written in a format that is down to earth and easy to impliment in everyday situations and hardships that occur in a parent's life. And speaking from experience their ideas work! It's easy to reference specific challenges as they occur, read the ideas, try them , and move on. This book has been inspirational and has served as my parenting survival kit. I only wish it was available when I was not yet a mother and teaching, so that I would have been enlightened to parenting issues. New teachers, please read this book for the sake of all us parents! Parents, please read this book for the sake of your children and their teachers!
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Summary: A must read for parents and teachers!
Review: I found this book extremely helpful as both a teacher and mother of three. The insights of Stephen and Michael are written in a format that is down to earth and easy to impliment in everyday situations and hardships that occur in a parent's life. And speaking from experience their ideas work! It's easy to reference specific challenges as they occur, read the ideas, try them , and move on. This book has been inspirational and has served as my parenting survival kit. I only wish it was available when I was not yet a mother and teaching, so that I would have been enlightened to parenting issues. New teachers, please read this book for the sake of all us parents! Parents, please read this book for the sake of your children and their teachers!
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Summary: Killer Tools!
Review: Just when you thought you knew everything about teaching; along comes another book claiming to do it better. Well, this little book packs a punch so powerful that you might well be forced to re-evaluate your thinking and un-learn some ineffective habits and replace them with some of the recommendations offered by H. Stephen Glenn and Michael L. Brock. Even if you have been teaching for some time, these ideas are fresh and simple enough to begin applying during your next lesson. Even though the advice is geared towards the parent, it can and should be thoroughly studied by teachers of all levels from Primary to University. An awareness of the comparative stages of mental ability and emotional development will enable the teacher to identify and adapt the appropriate approach needed. The book is not long on theory, it cuts straight to the heart of the matters discussed with practical and concrete recommendations. For example, a anxious and impatient parent at a Parent-Teacher Orientation meeting, wanting to know the single most effective thing they can do to promote their child's lifelong success in education, is promptly told: "Sit down to dinner with the television off every evening for 30-45 minutes". So, at least for me, its "Back to the Drawing Board"; time to clean the mental attic again on the road to becoming a better teacher. Thank you, H. Stephen Glenn and Michael L. Brock for sharing your ideas.
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Summary: Principles that are easy to understand and apply
Review: This book helps you focus on the long term outcome. It answers the question "What do you really want for your children 20 years from now?" And leads you to everyday practices that you can implement to get to that point. Good, poignant stories that help you see with your heart as well as your head. Practical proactive advice that will help you to parent in a way that feels good to you and to your child. For those parents who are looking for an alternative to the shame and blame route.
I highly recommend it!
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Summary: Principles that are easy to understand and apply
Review: This book helps you focus on the long term outcome. It answers the question "What do you really want for your children 20 years from now?" And leads you to everyday practices that you can implement to get to that point. Good, poignant stories that help you see with your heart as well as your head. Practical proactive advice that will help you to parent in a way that feels good to you and to your child. For those parents who are looking for an alternative to the shame and blame route.
I highly recommend it!
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Summary: Principles that are easy to understand and apply
Review: This book helps you focus on the long term outcome. It answers the question "What do you really want for your children 20 years from now?" And leads you to everyday practices that you can implement to get to that point. Good, poignant stories that help you see with your heart as well as your head. Practical proactive advice that will help you to parent in a way that feels good to you and to your child. For those parents who are looking for an alternative to the shame and blame route.
I highly recommend it!
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Summary: 7 Strategies for Developing Capable* Students
Review: This well written book is both powerful and inspirational. A must read for every parent wanting to do the best job in raising responsible, respectful and resourceful children in today's society.
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