Mom, Relax!! It’s done!!
It’s 6:30 on a Friday afternoon and you can’t think of when you felt that tired and fed up before. This had to be the worst work week EVER. As you’re driving home in traffic, you just want to scream at the thought of having to get everything ready for your family’s Disney World weekend you planned months ago!
Dad won’t be home for a while so it’s all going to be you, as usual. At least the kids had early release so they should have done their homework… uh, well, not quite!
Now, let’s try another scenario. Imagine being one of the SMART people who read Better At School, The Essential Guide to Help kids Improve at School: Same time, same day, same bad week, but when you get home, Little Darlings are at their respective desks just finishing off the last piece of homework for next week. “Just give us 10 minutes, mom”, they tell you, “and we can help you get the stuff ready for the weekend!”
Better At School helps you create the perfect home environment to see better results at school and WAY beyond. You get study skills, organization, time management, goal setting tips and much more to see your kids grow into responsible, self-motivated kids.
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Having taught music to general and behavior problem-labeled children in New York school systems for 20 years, 20 years ago, I have lasting impressions about how children present their life stories in their actions. From this experience, I would like to commend Ms. Bernard for publishing a simple, concise, user-friendly, adult- and child-friendly Operation Manual for tuning up skills and behavior in school. The information in Better At School is not new, is common sense based but addresses the everyday basics that work to enhance learning, build responsibility, nurture the parent-child relationship and help to maintain parent-child boundaries.
As a current 25-year martial artist, instructor and custom training developer; the crucial element in every lesson is building, maintaining and using a foundational structure. Without it, we fall. With it, we build. The same applies to all learning. And Ms. Bernard gives a sequence of basics, with easy-to-follow examples that can be used by parents and students, alike, to build this type of learning backbone.
Her book is gentle enough so that parents won't run away from the information and might find it useful. It is non-threatening enough where children can read it without completely rejecting it. The book has enough merit that, if in a classroom again, I might assign students to read a page of the book a day, minimum three pages a week, with the additional requirement that they read it out loud to their parents and get one comment per page to take back as the completion of their assignment. This would allow an arena for the information to be heard and require parent-child discussion in building good habits, usually never addressed in a calm fashion. Most of the time, the behaviors in this book are only talked about AFTER there is a failure. This book encourages interaction between parent and child to encourage responsible behavior BEFORE failure occurs.
Just as parenting is tough, so is growing through the school years. Better At School is a mindful book with good information anyone can digest. The voice used is conversational, so it draws the reader in as if the author is speaking directly. If you are a parent (or child) willing to look at yourself, the book is worth the read.
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Diane Gold is a facilitator who uses tai chi, kung fu, chi kung & music to create personal & corporate training programs to maximize quality of life & team and to fuel ultimate health, inside and out. She is known as the "unconscious awakener."
www.dianegold.com
"Ms. Bernard was a crucial aspect of my son’s academic success. She managed to instill a sense of responsibility in his daily tasks as well as an increased desire to succeed. She started a daily routine that provided him guidance and goals to follow through with. She is motivational and has a tremendous sense of understanding. My son’s success last year was attributed to her compatibility with my son’s individual needs. I trust she will bring on to others the same dedication and assertiveness that she provided to us. She is a key role in what the vocation of teaching and guidance should be."
- Tatiana Engels-Herreros, Florida, USA.
