Overcoming Underachieving: An Action Guide to Helping Your Child Succeed in School [Paperback]

Sam Goldstein (Author), Nancy Mather (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0471170321 | ISBN-13: 978-0471170327 | Publication Date: January 30, 1998 | Edition: 1

Help your child succeed!

If your child is falling behind in school, you know what heartache is --watching the struggle, feeling the frustration, yearning to help --but what can you do?

You can do a lot! In Overcoming Underachieving two nationally recognized experts in children's school problems show you how to become your child's advocate, coach, and guide through the educational process. Using numerous case examples, they help you pinpoint your child's unique learning patterns and the problems that interfere with learning, behavior, and achievement.

This information-packed book provides dozens of creative, parent-tested tools to help your child overcome difficulties with reading, math, handwriting, study skills, memorization, attention span, and many other problems that affect school success. With the help of Overcoming Underachieving, you can:
* Learn proven methods of assessing your child's patterns of learning and behaving
* Describe learning and behavior problems clearly to teachers and other educators
* Develop strategies that use strengths to overcome weaknesses
* Set goals your child really can achieve
* Find out how to improve your child's behavior and self-esteem


Emotional support is important, but you can give your son or daughter even more. Find out how in Overcoming Underachieving.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

This book is for the tens of thousands of parents desperate for practical information on how they can help their underachieving children do better academically. Written by nationally recognized experts on children's learning problems, it provides parents with a keen understanding of how children learn and offers guidance on how they can take an active role in assessing and addressing their children's learning disabilities.

From the Back Cover

Help your child succeed!

If your child is falling behind in school, you know what heartache is —watching the struggle, feeling the frustration, yearning to help —but what can you do?

You can do a lot! In Overcoming Underachieving two nationally recognized experts in children's school problems show you how to become your child's advocate, coach, and guide through the educational process. Using numerous case examples, they help you pinpoint your child's unique learning patterns and the problems that interfere with learning, behavior, and achievement.

This information-packed book provides dozens of creative, parent-tested tools to help your child overcome difficulties with reading, math, handwriting, study skills, memorization, attention span, and many other problems that affect school success. With the help of Overcoming Underachieving, you can:

• Learn proven methods of assessing your child's patterns of learning and behaving
• Describe learning and behavior problems clearly to teachers and other educators
• Develop strategies that use strengths to overcome weaknesses
• Set goals your child really can achieve
• Find out how to improve your child's behavior and self-esteem

Emotional support is important, but you can give your son or daughter even more. Find out how in Overcoming Underachieving.

See all Editorial Reviews

Product Details

• Paperback: 336 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (January 30, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471170321
• ISBN-13: 978-0471170327
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,058,427 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

30 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Intelligent, useful, compassionate and wise, December 18, 1999

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Elena (Tucson, AZ United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Overcoming Underachieving: An Action Guide to Helping Your Child Succeed in School (Paperback)

Mather and Goldstein's book is a wonderful find for parents whose child is having a reading, writing, behavioral, or school problem. They simplify an often frustrating and confusing situation by asking ten clear and simple questions which are then used to identify what to do. We found the specific recommendations of how and what to do very useful. Chapter 8&9 had very concrete and straightforward "language" things to do that made us feel like we were not just spinning our wheels anymore. This book was recommended by our elementary school after our son was tested. I would recommend this book for people as they begin testing to help explain what is going on and what they can and must do. Thanks Nancy & Sam for clarifying the process and making it easier to be an advocate for my child.

12 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An Exceptional Resource, December 11, 1999

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Dr. Sam Goldstein (Salt Lake City, Utah) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Overcoming Underachieving: An Action Guide to Helping Your Child Succeed in School (Paperback)

Finally a text that not only helps parents understand the forces that shape success or failure at school, but offers a set of practical guidelines and strategies to help all children succeed.