No. 577 Award Winning-Why Bad Grades Happen to Good Kids

Award Winning

Why Bad Grades Happen to Good Kids

What Parents Need to Know, What Parents Need to Do

by Linda Bress Silbert, PhD & Alvin J. Silbert, EdD,

Foreword by Al Roker, Co-host of the Today Show.

160 pp 5.5" x 8.5". $13.95.

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Available now or soon to be published in the following countries by Open Museum Publishing Co. (S. Korea) or Marshall Cavendish (Asian Pacific region)

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• South Korea, Thailand, Vietnam

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Description

Mom’s Choice Awards® Gold Recipient 2009 and Foreward Magazine's Book of the Year 2007. Parents and educators will find Linda and Alvin Silberts’ STRONG Learning Program an educational breakthrough. Focusing on six key areas—Self-esteem, Trust, Responsibility, Options, Needs, and Goals—this program will help struggling students and academic stars alike achieve academic success.

When children get bad grades, it can seem they are simply lazy or not trying hard enough. In fact, bad grades are usually symptoms of other problems which this book will help parents discover and resolve.

This accessible book will help you:

• Learn the real causes of low grades

• Improve communication with your children

• Address problems in a positive, constructive manner

• Increase children’s confidence and self-esteem

• Get children excited about school

Look Inside

Click here to view inside pages. WBGHTGK-WebPres.pdf. File includes: • Al Roker's Foreword • Table of Contents • Introduction • Chapter 1 • Index • and more....

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Thank You for Your Kind Comments

“Drs. Linda and Alvin Silbert use the wisdom gained over many years of experience to help parents nurture their children to become better students and, more importantly, to lead happier and more fulfilling lives. By seeing the complete child, Why Bad Grades Happen to Good Kids focuses not just on better grades, but on a better life for your child.”—Kevin T. Kalikow, M.D., Psychiatrist, Author of Your Child In The Balance

“All parents want to raise happy, successful kids. With the S+T+R+O+N+G method, parents can improve communication, encourage their children, and guide them towards achievement.”—Marc E. Childs, M.D., Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, New York Medical College

“Self-esteem is critical to success in life. Linda and Al share practical action steps parents can take now to promote a positive image—whether the child is a toddler or teenager.”—Daniel F. Joynt, Ph.D., Professor of Counselor Education, Western Connecticut State University

“Real-life advice on how your child can do better in school, in language we can all understand. An excellent book.”—Linda Selvin, Executive Director, New York Branch, International Dyslexia Association

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Thank You for Your Thoughtful Reviews

“...well-written and packed with useful advice to cherish and share with others.”

— Review by Jessica Roberts, West Yorkshire, England (BookPleasures.com)

Why do bad grades happen to good kids? That is something I think every parent wants to know. All I can say is look no further than this wonderful book.

It doesn’t matter what type of grades your child has achieved - this book is just one of those things you should read regardless of anything else. It makes you think and see problems so much more clearly then you did before.

Also I think this excellent guide will help parents to understand more if they do happen to have a child who isn’t getting good grades. The authors teach you why this is happening and what you can do to help your child using the STRONG Learning Program. There are tales from kids themselves who are low-achievers. Many of them all share the same problem - their parents are too demanding and they feel overwhelmed.

Linda and co aim to break down the problems into easy chunks so these youngsters can manage more easily. Every parent needs to take responsibility and can relieve their child’s work burdens by simply dedicating a few moments to help them with their homework, for instance. This is just one of the ways in which the authors recommend to improve your child’s learning.

Each chapter is broken into sections and filled with invaluable advice. Every problem there ever can be is included and solved.

This guide uncovers student’s problems and helps communication skills between parents and their children. From increasing their confidence and self-esteem to improving responsibility and trust. It might sound hard but if you read the advice Linda and Alvin provide, it really can be quite simple. Also why not let your child read this? If it can help parents then it might provide solutions for students too.

A well-written book with a bright intriguing cover, packed with useful advice to cherish and share with others.

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"...short on length, long on information."

—Review by Simon Barrett, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

"While short on length, it is long on information.

Many parents go through the anguish of watching their children struggle in our school environment.... One of the reasons is the information rich world that we live in. If you compare the curriculum of 30 years ago with its modern counterpart, you can see that the amount of material has increased substantially.

The Silberts assert that there is no magic bullet to the problem, and virtually every child is different, however there are some common denominators that a parent can use to analyze and resolve their child s learning difficulties.

They base their book around 6 principles contained in the acronym STRONG, Self esteem, Trust, Responsibility, Options, Needs, and Goals.

Taking each of these concepts in turn Why Bad Grades Happens to Good Kids explores not just the resolution, but the root causes, and they can be many and varied.

By using short actual case studies the reader gets to see the issues through the child s eyes, and the solutions. Often times the resolution to a specific problem is not through punishment, it is by removing the cause of the problem.

My own children are grown and long since flown the coop, but even I learned a lot of valuable information from reading this book, and it is information that I will keep stored for when I get asked a question.

Drs. Al and Linda Silbert present their ideas in a clear and easy to comprehend fashion. There is none of the usual Medical, Mental, or Morality mumbo jumbo that forms the heart of many of these kinds of book.

Even if your child is doing just fine in school and and life, Why Bad Grades Happen To Good Kids is worth a read. I can guarantee that you will learn something to make both your child and your own life even better. Retrospect is like hindsight, and we all know that hindsight is 20/20.

Much of the information in Why Bad Grades is common sense, but common sense often loses the battle with emotion, particularly when interacting with your children. Negative comments abound, either in sarcasm, or threats. It is simpler to say well, are you are stupid or something, or You are grounded, rather than try and offer positive reinforcement.

In the aftermath of hurricane Katrina, my wife's 15 year old son found himself homeless in New Orleans, and he came to live with us for several months. It had been many years since I had had a 15 year old in the house. My wife, and to a certain extent I, were concerned that this would disintegrate into warfare within days!

I treated Joey with respect and dignity, as a result I received the same in return. The Silberts make much of respect and dignity, and I know it works!

Why Bad Grades Happen To Good Kids is available through your local bookstore or at Amazon.com. There is also a web site about these interesting authors called StrongLearning.com and their goals and aspirations.

Simon Barrett is an adult educator in Calgary, Alberta. With the 11 months a year of winter, he reads a lot of books! He is also a contributing editor for bloggernews.net.

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“…a much-needed book on a very timely subject.”

—Review by John H. Manhold, Psychological Counselor and Past President, Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine, US

The Silberts have provided a much-needed book on a very timely subject. Increasing numbers of children are performing at a sub-par academic level This performance, the authors point out, invariably is the symptom of situations that result from myriad problems that can be solved with proper child-parent rapport. The authors, as an aside, have presented, but in an inoffensive manner, the fact that the average parent, although ‘caring’, or believing him/herself to be, often unthinkingly employs the least effective, and perhaps even the completely wrong, tactic.

The average reader will be able to identify, almost immediately, many of the circumstances involved in their own personal case. The parent who is too involved with the necessity of making a living to have sufficient time for the child; the result of a broken home; too stringent rules; the overextended student: the student with undiscovered hearing problems; the one with attention deficit, or perhaps just a slower ability to learn – parents often set standards that the child is incapable of achieving; the child who does not gain a sense of ‘being part of the family’ – a not unusual situation today where the child may be in day care in the morning, the ward of a baby sitter in the afternoon, rushed through dinner and being put to bed at night with little actual contact with the family; and many more causative situations.

The book presents a large mass of important material in a very easily read series of simplified case studies, with subsequent succinct discussion of suggested solutions. It is a book that should provide the reader with an invaluable insight into the child’s problem, and coincidentally necessitate the parent to indulge in some introspection to solve it.

I should like to have seen a little further expansion on the subject of instilling a sense of ‘trust’ in a child, because of the difficult and unsafe environment of today’s world. However, the book does stress that a parent should realize his/her capabilities and seek professional aid when necessary where material of this nature easily can be obtained.

I strongly recommend this book for any parent whose child is experiencing difficulties in school, or for any parent, for that matter. They may gain an insight to some of their own, possibly less than acceptable, parent-child thought or action patterns.