How to Parent So Children Will Learn: Clear Strategies for Raising Happy, Achieving Children

As the Today show's contributing correspondent and the director of the Family Achievement Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio, Dr. Sylvia Rimm is our foremost expert on how to raise children in an environment that encourages learning and achievement. In How to Parent So Children Will Learn, Dr. Rimm gives 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
¸ Help your children improve test-taking skills
¸ Encourage creativity in your children
¸ Set limits for children