Parenting: Values, Goals, and How to Motivate Your Child

Parenting: Values, Goals is a 2nd edition of this book. It consists most of the same material as the previous book: How to Motivate Your Child. It is a quick help book for parents who care for their children and their success at school. It provides quick tips for parents of how to handle motivational issues. It discusses the topics of values, hidden interests, goals, and controlling negative feelings. You can set limits in a loving manner while having controls on the motivation. Parenting is a challenging, never-ending job. This book offers easy suggestions of how to charge up your parenting batteries, and how to handle negativity, procrastinating, and an unmotivated child. This is a quick help guide for parents who want to get their children to learn and to be interested in their schoolwork. This book goes through the key issues of what can cause lack of motivation, and what can the parents do when a child becomes unmotivated. How do parents know when they should do something more or something less for their child? This book helps the parents to understand what their children are going through, their different values, and feelings to get the expected results. This book discusses of how to create a supportive and encouraging environment for your child. The endnotes describe the source of the information: the research article or the research news. Chapters: FOREWORD 1 WHAT IS MOTIVATION? 2 PLAY WITH MOTIVATION 3 HOW TO MOTIVATE? 4 SETTING GOALS 5 LAYERS OF MOTIVATION 6 THE HIDDEN INTERESTS 7 VALUES 8 EMOTIONAL AND SOCIAL NEEDS 9 THE IMPORTANT INTERACTION 10 CONTROLLING NEGATIVE FEELINGS 11 WHO IS A GOOD PARENT? 12 BEING ORGANIZED 13 CHILDREN AND TELEVISION 14 CHILDREN AND HOMEWORK 15 LEARNING AND MOTIVATING TO LEARN 16 TEACH GOOD STUDY METHODS AND TECHNIQUES 17 TEACH TEAMWORK 18 END NOTES