Help Your Child Through School: How to Make the Most of Your Child's Education from Pre-School to Teens
Jun 2013 · Random House
Ebook
248
Pages
About this ebook
Helping your child through school may mean the difference between classroom success and failure. With academic qualifications an essential passport to rewarding and enjoyable careers, and with the many changes taking place in education, such help has never been more vitally necessary.
In this practical book, covering the whole age range, bestselling psychologist Dr David Lewis explains how to become an active partner in your child’s educational achievements.
You will learn ways of:
-Working in partnership with teachers
-Increasing classroom motivation and confidence
-Developing natural learning abilities
-Dealing with anxieties which undermine success
-Offering the right kind of assistance with homework
-Smoothing the transition between schools
-Ensuring the best examination grades
Help Your Child Through School is an easy-to-follow guide which assumes no special expertise or educational attainment on the part of parents.
The results of more than a decade’s work with teachers, educational specialists and parents this book is one of the best investments you can make in your child’s future.
In this practical book, covering the whole age range, bestselling psychologist Dr David Lewis explains how to become an active partner in your child’s educational achievements.
You will learn ways of:
-Working in partnership with teachers
-Increasing classroom motivation and confidence
-Developing natural learning abilities
-Dealing with anxieties which undermine success
-Offering the right kind of assistance with homework
-Smoothing the transition between schools
-Ensuring the best examination grades
Help Your Child Through School is an easy-to-follow guide which assumes no special expertise or educational attainment on the part of parents.
The results of more than a decade’s work with teachers, educational specialists and parents this book is one of the best investments you can make in your child’s future.
About the author
Dr David Lewis is a neuropsychologist, director of research at Mindlab International, and the author of more than two dozen bestselling books. He is a Chartered Member of the British Psychological Society, a Fellow of the International Stress Management Association, and founder of Action on Phobias and Stresswatch; a non-profit charity advising companies on stress management. He has also been the on-screen consultant to Channel 4's acclaimed Secret Eaters diet programme.
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