Product Description

This book was written for every parent who has every experienced a homework problem with their child! Based on the research and clinical experience of two well-known authors, this practical book will help parents solve many of the most common homework problems experienced by children in elementary and secondary school. Parents can teach their children 7 steps to achieving homework success and learn to do homework independently and successfully.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #343919 in Books
• Published on: 1998-12
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 200 pages

Review
"Drs. Zentall and Goldstein have done a tremendous service for all families with school-age children, and especially for those for whom school homework time has become an incessant battlefield with their children. The techniques here are well-grounded in the scientific research and relatively easy to implement. Indeed, the methods concentrate heavily on incentives, approval, appreciation, and respect for children and their level of academic abilities and study-skills. This is a truly useful compendium of effective methods for making homework time effective, successful, and enjoyable." -- Russell A. Barkley, Ph.D., Director of Psychology, Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology University of Massachusetts Medical School

"Seven Steps to Homework Success" provides parents with useful methods for helping their children to achieve at higher levels in school. I enthusiastically recommend it!" -- Lynn Clark, Ph.D.

"The homework battles are fought in thousands of kitchens throughout America every weekday eveningFinally, an effective and pragmatic guidebook has arrived to help parents in this struggle" -- Richard D. Lavoie, M.Ed., Executive Director of Riverview School

About the Author
Sydney S. Zentall, Ph.D. is currently Professor of Special Education and Psychological Sciences at Purdue University. Professor Zentall has also taught children in regular education and in special education in both private and public school systems. She has been the recipient of grants from the NIMH and Department of Education, Office of Special Education. She has published numerous scientific articles and book chapters in psychology and education and is past president of the Division of Research of the Council for Exceptional Children.

Sam Goldstein, Ph.D. is a member of the faculty at the University of Utah and a nationally recognized expert in child development. He has published nine previous books as well as numerous scientific articles, book chapters and videos.

Customer Reviews

A Homework Program for the Most Challenging Children and Teens
From Dean R. Garrison, author of "Ending the Homework Wars":

"Seven Steps to Homework Success" provides parents with many useful guidelines and tips that address a variety of homework difficulties. The book is designed to help children with some motivation to do well with school and homework to develop the "skills" that support homework success. In contrast, my book, "Ending the Homework Wars", provides parents with a powerful system designed to achieve exceptional results with even the most challenging homework difficulties presented by children and teens.

"Ending the Homework Wars" features the Homework Success Master Plan, enabling parents to design a step-by-step program tailor-made to the unique needs of each particular child or teen. The book also includes a powerful, proven approach for gaining significant improvement in children's behavior and motivation, step-by-step routines that simplify daily homework tasks and responsibilities, strategies for helping students remember, stay organized and keep track of assignments and materials, solutions to children who lie about not having any homework, re-evaluating children's needs for tutoring services, guidelines for healthy nutrition and exercise, strategies for improving parent consistency, guidelines for addressing children's special needs, including children with ADHD, gifted underachievers and children with learning disabilities, and trouble-shooting strategies.

"Seven Steps to Homework Success" provides useful guidelines for parents that promote better homework outcomes for many children, particularly those in the earlier grades. "Ending the Homework Wars" provides parents with a proven system for achieving exceptional results with children of all grade levels--- elementary through high school--- including those children and teens parents have found most challenging.

--- Dean R. Garrison, author of "Ending the Homework Wars"

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I have been an educator and a parent for over thirty years. I have read many printed documents on homework issues. This book has excellent information and is the best book I have seen so far on the issue. I would recommend it to anyone looking for information and/or help in assisting children and/or teachers with the homework issues we face today.

This book would be an excellent source for parents, teachers and/or administrators. I would hope to find it in every public and school library in the country.