How to Parent So Children Will Learn

DR. RIMM PROVIDES 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 to: select appropriate rewards and punishments, decrease arguments and power struggles, encourage appropriate independence without overempowering your children, guide your children toward good study habits, encourage creativity in your children, set limits for children, and much more.

Sylvia Rimm, Ph.D., is a best-selling author who was a contributing correspondent for nine years on NBC's Today Show and who hosts a nationally broadcast radio programùFamily Talk with Sylvia Rimm. Dr. Rimm is a psychologist who specializes in working with gifted children and is the director of the Family Achievement Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio. She also writes a syndicated newspaper column on parenting.

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
Introduction	p. xv
How to Get the Most out of This Book	p. xvii
Empowering Your Children with the V of Love	p. 1
Praise	p. 3
Too Much Praise, Too Much of a Good Thing	p. 3
The Referential Speaking Effect	p. 6
Empower Your Child with the Power to Be a Child	p. 10
Directions of Power: Dependence and Dominance	p. 14
Why Do We Overempower? How Do Children Think?	p. 22
Take-Charge Techniques for Parents	p. 27
What about Genetics?	p. 49
Questions and Answers	p. 50
United Parenting	p. 71
Parent Rivalry	p. 72
Why Do We Sabotage?	p. 94
Abuse: When There Can't Be a United Front	p. 95
When Parents Love Their Children but Not Each Other	p. 97
Adoption and Foster Parenting: Can There Be a United Front?	p. 103
Maintaining a United Front with Relatives	p. 106
Maintaining a United Front with Childcare Givers, Nannies, and Other Important People	p. 112
Sibling Rivalry	p. 113
Rivalry between Parent and Same-Gender Child	p. 117
The Parent-Teacher United Front	p. 118
Exceptions to the Parent-Teacher United Front	p. 123
The Teacher-Parent United Front	p. 126
Questions and Answers	p. 127
Teaching Habits that Encourage Learning	p. 151
Homework and Study	p. 151
Motivating Children to Study More	p. 160
How-to-Study Hints	p. 161
Anxieties and Disabilities	p. 175
Morning, Noon, and Night	p. 194
Chores and Work	p. 202
Practice in the Arts	p. 205
Why Do We Do It? Why Do We Nag?	p. 207
The Communication Habit	p. 208
Fun and Games	p. 209
Questions and Answers	p. 211
Setting Positive Expectations	p. 231
How to Model Achievement	p. 231
When Parents Are Immigrants	p. 241
When Parents Can't Control the Role Models- Or Can They?	p. 243
Placing Yourself and/or Your Spouse Back on a Pedestal	p. 251
Setting Expectations	p. 252
Intrinsic Learning	p. 281
Questions and Answers	p. 282
NASP Position Statement on Students with Attention Problems	p. 299
Resources for Parents	p. 303
Organizations, Associations and Websites	p. 303
DVDs for Parents and Educators	p. 304
Learning Leads Q-Cards	p. 305
Course	p. 305
Miscellaneous	p. 305
Additional Reading for Parents	p. 307
References	p. 309
Endnotes	p. 311
Index	p. 313
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