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Moms & Dads You Need This Book! You Don't Know Enough!

by Janis Ford

114 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #07-1000; ISBN 1-4251-2494-1; US$14.75, C$16.96, EUR11.50, £7.62

This book gives parents practical guidelines to spot and minimize potential learning problems. It explains simple tests and activities that every parent should do to enhance their child's development.

About the Book

Moms & Dads, You Need This Book! is an easy to understand, practical guide teaching you how to identify potential learning problems during the first year at school and even before the child goes to school.

Many parents discover that their child has a learning problem only after their child has gone to Primary School. Valuable time has been wasted!

This book explains what to look for when a child is not achieving adequately. It shows parents simple tests so that potential learning problems can be spotted and minimized in the pre-school years.

Parents want to help their child achieve in the classroom.

Parents worry about how their child will cope when he goes to school.

Parents of non achievers often do not recognise, know or understand the type of learning problems that their child might be experiencing at school.

Most parents do not know what to do.

This book passes on a lifetime of teaching knowledge and experience to parents of young children.

Moms & Dads You Need this Book! shows every parent how to prepare their child for school by sharpening his perception and intellect by introducing experiences and concepts that are vital for achievement in the classroom. It instructs parents how to enrich their child's language and understanding by introducing important words that he will encounter at school. It trains parents how to improve their child's span of concentration, listening skills, reasoning power, self confidence and self image. It describes activities that every parent should do to enhance their child's development and learning potential.

About the Author

Children are as a magnet to Janis Ford. She is a dedicated teacher, mother and grandmother.

Janis Ford was born in 1937 in South Wales, UK, and qualified at Bishop Otter College, Chichester, England as a Primary School teacher in 1957. She first worked for the London Education Authority. Janis married and, while her two children were young, established and ran her own pre-school for twelve years. Janis then went on to work for the Richmond Upon Thames Education Authority.

Ever since she immigrated with her family to Cape Town, South Africa in 1982, Janis has researched traditional African stories and rewritten them for publication for reading schemes in schools. Many of her own stories have been published by Macmillan Education England for their African Reading Scheme. A few years ago she wrote thirty stories for the animated TV series "African Myths and Legends" and she has recently had ten adventure stories for twelve year olds published.

Janis lectures mature students at teacher training establishments and has written a teachers resource book on how to spot children with learning problems in the classroom.

In between all this, Janis continues to teach children who are non achievers. Over the years she has realised more and more that parents also need information, help and guidance and now she has written this book especially for them.

Parents, this book is for you.

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