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Sylvia Rimm, PhD
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- Children's Health
- Relationships / Family
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See Jane Win For GirlsWomen have indeed come a long way. Dr. Sylvia Rimm's New York Times best-selling book, See Jane Win and her sequels, How Jane Won and See Jane Win for Girls, provide inspiring stories of over 1,000 successful women in traditional and nontraditional careers.
School and life achievement patterns for girls and women differ considerably from those of boys and men. This presentation will provide the main themes in the childhoods of these successful women and feature research-based advice for raising and teaching girls as well as teacher, parent and counselor activities to help girls build self-esteem, develop interests, cope with competition, discover mentors, manage social skills, handle bullying and improve family relationships.
Information from See Jane Win, How Jane Won, and See Jane Win for Girls will sensitize audiences to both the similarities and individual differences among successful women and show how girls can live The American Dream.
Parenting is more complex than it has ever been. Dr. Rimm will share some of the current issues she has discussed with the listeners of her national public radio program, with viewers on her NBC-TV "Today Show" interviews, and with the readers of her syndicated newspaper column. Perfectionism, competition, peer pressure, the changing roles of parents, single parents, divorce, creativity, sibling rivalry, and of course, school achievement will be among her topics. Parents will have the opportunity to submit questions before the program as well as to ask questions directly of Dr. Rimm. Dr. Rimm's emphasis, as always, will be on providing practical help in guiding children toward success, confidence, and kindness in a time when parents face continuous challenge.
Dr. Rimm will share the foundational principals of parenting which she provides to parents at Family Achievement Clinic and in her parenting book, How to Parent So Children Will Learn. She will describe the four cornerstones of raising happy achieving children.
1) Empowering Your Children With the V of Love - How to praise and empower moderately so children do not feel excess pressure, are not given adult power too soon, and are encouraged to love learning.
2) United Parenting - How spouses can support each other and their children's teachers to strengthen the educational process and prevent their children's underachievement. Single parenting, grandparenting, and child care will be included.
3) Teaching Habits That Encourage Learning - How to teach study habits as well as independent daily routines which will foster achievement and self-confidence.
4) Setting Positive Expectations - How parents can communicate messages about achievement to their children by what they say about their own work. Gender expectations for achievement will also be described.
Underachievement Syndrome has become an educational epidemic. Many capable children who sit in our classrooms do not work up to their ability. Patterns which cause underachievement begin at home and are continued in the classroom. Parents and teachers may overlook or misinterpret the symptoms and may be manipulated by children in ways that accidentally maintain the problems. This presentation will focus on ways that teachers can identify the patterns of underachievement and on ways they can help these students in the prevention and cure of Underachievement Syndrome.
Other titles:
Practical Strategies to Raise Student Achievement
Speaker Information
Says Katie Couric, former NBC Today show host, "Dr. Rimm is a welcome voice of calm and reason—someone who offers practical advice, with almost immediate results. She's a guardian angel for families who need a little or a lot of guidance." Dr. Sylvia Rimm's nine years as a contributing correspondent to NBC's Today Show and as a favorite personality on public radio make her a familiar child psychologist to many audiences.
Dr. Rimm is a psychologist, director of Family Achievement Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio, and is a clinical professor at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine. Families come from all over the United States for help.
She has authored many books including How to Parent So Children Will Learn and Why Bright Kids Get Poor Grades, both 2008 National Best Books award winners from USA Book News. In addition, Dr. Rimm has written Growing Up Too Fast: The Rimm Report on the secret Lives of America's Middle Schoolers, Keys to Parenting the Gifted Child, Raising Preschoolers, See Jane Win®, How Jane Won, and See Jane Win for Girls.
See Jane Win®, a New York Times Bestseller,was featured on the Oprah Winfrey and Today shows and in People Magazine. Her book, Rescuing the Emotional Lives of Overweight Children, was a finalist for the Books for a Better Life Award. Many parents and educators seek Dr. Rimm's help through her books, tapes, q-cards, and newsletters.
In her parenting column, Dr. Rimm answers hundreds of letters each year from parents and grandparents in her nationally syndicated column with Creators Syndicate.
Dr. Rimm speaks and publishes internationally on family and school approaches to guiding children toward achievement, parenting, and the lives of teenagers. She is a dynamic speaker who fascinates audiences, speaking on many topics, tailoring her educational talks to the special themes of the audience.
Dr. Rimm draws experience and inspiration from her wonderful husband; her very successful children; 2 daughters and 2 sons, and their spouses; and 9 vivacious grandchildren.
Dr. Rimm's expertise on gifted children, parenting, families, teens and tweens, and many more topics, makes her an excellent psychologist, author, columnist and speaker.