The Empowered Parent: Six Simple Steps to Help Your Struggling Child Succeed - Softcover

Maitland, Beverly

Softcover

ISBN 10: 147597504X ISBN 13: 9781475975048

Verlag: iUniverse, 2013

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In every corner of the world, where there is a school, there is a struggling child. From Boston to Bangkok, from New York to the Netherlands, from the East Coast to the West Coast, students struggle in schools. In The Empowered Parent, author, parent, and teacher Beverly Maitland shares six basic but powerful strategies to help your child succeed in school, one hour at a time. Beverly Maitland provides real-family examples, guiding parents into a strategic and unique plan suitable for each family, no matter what circumstances surround their lives. Seeking to help children from birth through high school, she shares simple secrets that can empower parents to understand who they are as parents and what power they naturally have within them to value their responsibilities and to lead their children to a life of success beyond the classroom. Filled with techniques and usable information, The Empowered Parent communicates that every outstanding achievement may come with considerable sacrifi ce and diffi cult struggles, in which the parent and the child must be equal participants. Even so, just one hour of consistency each day can turn your child away from the path of defeat and toward the mark of success.

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Beverly Maitland is a mother of three and an educator who has taught in the United States and the Caribbean. She holds a doctorate in Education and is always ready to share her passion for learning and her best parenting strategies with parents.

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The EMPOWERED Parent

Six Simple Steps to Help Your Struggling Child Succeed

By Beverly Maitland

iUniverse, Inc.

Copyright © 2013 Beverly Maitland
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-4759-7504-8

Contents

INTRODUCTION...............................................................
ix
SECTION 1: EMPOWER YOURSELF................................................
1
Chapter 1: The Realities of Schools........................................
3
Chapter 2: Powerful Parenting..............................................
7
Chapter 3: The Truth about Struggles 14....................................
Chapter 4: The Reasons Students Struggle—I.................................
20
Chapter 5: The Reasons Students Struggle—II................................
27
Chapter 6: The Reasons Students Struggle—III...............................
35
Chapter 7: Discouraged Parents.............................................
40
SECTION 2: EMPOWER YOUR CHILD..............................................
53
Chapter 8: The Breakthrough................................................
55
Chapter 9: Gather Data.....................................................
69
Chapter 10: Develop a Plan.................................................
73
SECTION 3: STRATEGIZE......................................................
81
Chapter 11: Strategies for the Pre-Elementary Student......................
83
Chapter 12: Strategies for the Elementary Student..........................
94
Chapter 13: Strategies to Help the High School Student.....................
108
Chapter 14: Teach Good Habits..............................................
118
Chapter 15: Challenging Children...........................................
130
Chapter 16: Spirituality: The Other Side of Academics......................
149
SECTION 4: WITNESS SUCCESS.................................................
157
Chapter 17: Embrace Success................................................
159
Chapter 18: The Triumphant End.............................................
165
APPENDIX...................................................................
175
Assignment Track Sheet.....................................................
177
Organizational Checklist...................................................
179
Internet Resources.........................................................
181

CHAPTER 1

THE REALITIES OF SCHOOLS

You send your child to the schoolmaster,but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In every corner of the universe, where there is a school, there is astruggling child. From Boston to Bangkok, from New York to theNew Delhi, from Costa Rica to Canada, and from even the bestschools in Singapore to the worst schools in Africa, students struggle.Life, by nature, is a struggle. Schools and the school systems are partof living, and hence, derive their struggles from the political, economicand moral struggles that are in our society. The evidences have neverbeen more vivid that schools, as educational entities are places ofstruggle. Schools, just like the outside world, are places of wherestudents compete for success and competefor survival. As academic facilities,ideally, schools exist for students to getan education. However, the elements thatdesign schools need in-depth analysisand understanding. On the surface, theassumption is that schools are goodplaces.

Through the positive eye, we may see schools in the following ways:

* Places of nurture, discovery and excitement.

* Within schools, students gain lifetime experiences and createlasting friendships.

* The school is a place of transformation, a mighty hand thatshapes and molds the child into a positive and productive citizenin society.

* The path of schooling gives parents hope that children will turnout to be something in life.

* Schools also cultivate character and build leaders.

* Schools also cheer and encourage students throughout life'sinevitable journey.

* Schooling helps to lessen the struggle up the social ladder.

These familiar statements echo the theorized philosophy, missionand vision statements of many schools. This is the norm, the expectationof schools. However, there are deviations from the norm, too many toignore. In actuality, the makeup of schools and school systems could bemore detrimental than beneficial to your child. Consequently, we haveto examine schools though the lens of the negative eye. An in-depthscrutiny of schools would therefore reveal that:

* Schools are not only places to get an education.

* They are the construction houses for poor character building.

* They challenge willpower, and they profile and label the child.

* They can sometimes operate as factories for poor characterbuilding.

* Within schools there are instances of suicides and homicides,gangs are present, bullying is common and depression and lowself-esteem are prevalent.

If one can find it in the street, he can find it in the schools. Theschool is a microcosm of its local society. Therefore, whatever happensin society happens inside the school. In other words, the societytranslates its atmosphere to the school, both in the positive and negativelight. Still the school is a place of promise; concurrently, I am sure youwill agree that the abundance of dichotomies makes it a scary place aswell.

Nevertheless, despite a problematic education system and the issuessurrounding our schools, as parents, we can still mitigate the negativesin order to direct the success of our children. In fact, over the years,there have been many desperate calls for parents to take charge of theirchildren's education. This is another attempt to encourage parents torealize that schools are the testing grounds for moral stamina. In orderto succeed, children need parents with a participatory purpose becausethe future of children rests heavily in thevictories of their schooling experiences.Parents with such a purpose may be theonly factor that can counteract thenegativity that is inherent behind thewalls of schools. Active and involvedparenting makes the only differencebetween the positive and the negativeattitudes that children can assimilate fromschools.

Analytically, the call for parents to take charge has echoed over theyears. Unfortunately, not many schools provide strategies that induceparental involvement. Some schools do not realize that many parentsneed lessons on parenting itself. The society expects parents to knowwhat to do in every situation, and how to handle these challenges.Therefore, to help parents learn more about struggling children thisdiscussion has the following objectives:

1) To explain who are struggling children.

2) To identify the reasons children struggle.

3) To share strategies that parents can use to promote success.

The answers to the countless issues in school systems and familiesare...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: iUniverse
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 147597504X
• ISBN 13: 9781475975048
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 198
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