How to Parent So Children Will Learn Author:Sylvia B. Rimm As the Today show's contributing correspondent and the director of the Family Achievement Center in Cleveland, Ohio, Dr. Sylvia Rimm is our foremost expert on how to raise children in an environment that encourages learning and achievement. — In Smart Parenting, Dr. Rimm gives practical, compassionate, no-nonsense advice for raising a happy, ... more »secure, and productive child from preschool age to teenage. Easy-to-follow parent pointers, sample dialogues, and boxed step-by-step examples show parents how to:
Select appropriate rewards and punishments for your child
Decrease arguments and power struggles with your child
Encourage appropriate independence without over-empowering your child
Set limits for children who are too powerful
Replace competition with cooperation and compromise
Guide your child toward good study habits
Help your child improve test-taking skills and cope with test anxiety