Tame the Test Anxiety Monster (Teaching A Child To) [Kindle Edition]

Katherine Gordy Levine (Author)

Book Description

You can help your child overcome test anxiety

This eBook provides parents with the tools and knowledge they need to help their elementary or middle school child overcome stress and anxiety related to tests. This eBook educates the parent first in order for the parent to help their child. As you look for ways to improve your child’s study skills, don’t overlook the importance of teaching them how to cope with test anxiety.

Understanding test anxiety

Test anxiety can start to emerge in the third grade and the level of stress and anxiety intensifies if the fear of tests is not dealt with. This book first provides you with a solid understanding of what anxiety is, its place in a healthy life, and perspectives on recognizing when anxiety levels have become unhealthy.

The tools you and your child need

Written in clear language, and with examples, five steps to Tame the Test Anxiety Monster are explained:
Step One: Focus on what matters
Step Two: Make a Feeling Thermometer
Step Three: Learn to self-soothe
Step Four: Rehearse success
Step Five: Develop a game plan

A program for success

Helping your child Tame the Test Anxiety Monster not only gets them back on track with tests at school, it provides valuable lessons for anxiety management that can be applied in other areas of their life (and yours!).

Expert advice

The author, Katherine Gordy Levine, has over thirty years experience as a counselor and social worker, and has been a guest speaker at over 60 events on parenting and emotional fitness topics.

Product Details

• File Size: 390 KB
• Print Length: 19 pages
• Publisher: MetaPlume Corporation (August 12, 2012)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
• Language: English
• ASIN: B008WZD3OU
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• X-Ray: Not Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #162,789 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
  • #52 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Education & Reference > Schools & Teaching > Parent Participation

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Terrific Parenting Strategies for Overcoming Test Anxiety! September 19, 2012

By Jean A. Tracy

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Katherine gives you 10 easy to understand descriptions of anxiety and seven signs when it is troublesome. She takes you from night terrors to anxiety during school tests. She calls the latter the Test Anxiety Monster.

I loved her kindness jar and her forgiveness jar for helping families focus on what matters most. Her eight statements parents can tell their kids when they do poorly on tests make a lot of sense.

Developing a personal feeling thermometer is just one of Katherine's great techniques. Her downward scale is easy to use starting with the cute sunshine face to a very sad face. Kids will understand the pictures and the words from 10 to down to 1.

She also developed an anxiety thermometer that's so clear any parent can draw it and any child will understand it.

To help your child, Katherine provides 8 anxiety feeling signs that you can discuss with your child. She tells you to post them on the fridge and ask your child for their feeling temperature 3 times a day.

Next Katherine gives you 4 self-soothing strategies to teach your anxious child. She also gives great advice on how to rehearse successful test taking. She even gives you a game plan to use with your child.

For parents of children who may have learning disabilities, Katherine gives 10 special parenting tips.

If you're wondering whether to pick up this excellent kindle book, wonder no more. It will help you and your child. When kids aren't anxious about school and tests, they are happier, confident, and more successful. With Katherine's help, you can give this gift to your child.

Jean Tracy, MSS
Author of `Character Building: Problem Stories for Family Discussions'

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Highly Recommended October 23, 2012

By Geraldine Wallman

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As a psychotherapist I am always looking for accessible, accurate and helpful material on emotional regulation to share with my clients. "Tame the Test Anxiety Monster" meets these criteria and goes one better - it employs a gentle humor that can reduce the reader's anxiety immediately. I know it did mine.

This book will be useful not only for parents struggling to improve their skills in parenting anxious young test-takers, but also for older students who can apply the principles to themselves and adults who have difficulty regulating their own anxieties.

Geraldine Wallman, ACSW, DSW

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Always insightful August 25, 2012

By Anabelle Arias

Format:Kindle Edition

Being that I know the author personally, it is difficult not to be biased about her writings. That being said and for the same reason, I am absolutely sure you will find this book or any of the books written by her extremely insightful and easy to read not just for the parents dealing with the issues but for the children as well. Can't wait to read the whole thing.

More About the Author

Parent advice from a mutant - a therapist and the world's most experienced parent; she cared for 366 teens needing short-term foster care.

Katherine Gordy Levine is a wife, mother, grandmother and one time foster mother. She and her husband offered short term care for teens in trouble with the law. She is also a licensed therapist.

Before becoming a foster parent, she directed the Social Service Department at Woman's Hospital in New York and then became an Assistant Professor at Columbia University.

Following her years as a foster parent, she directed mental health crisis teams in the most poverty ridden areas of NYC. She also continued teaching as an adjunct professor at Columbia University and Smith College.

Katherine has spoken at close to 60 seminars, workshops and events. A sought after guest speaker she has spoken on topics such as family support, children's mental health, anger management, family violence, parenting, intervention, self care and emotional fitness. She has been a guest speaker with the Institute on Psychiatric Services American Psychiatric Association, American Public Health Association, NASW's Annual Conference, and she has spoken at universities across the country, from Portland to Washington.

She is the founder of Emotional Fitness Training, Inc. and describes herself as the C.E.O. and Jill of All for that company.