Time for School Year's Resolutions
by Nile Stanley, Ph.D. According to a survey by Time for Kids, the top New Year's Resolutions have been:
Ask your child to write his/her five resolutions. "Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve" wrote Napoleon Hill. High achievers get behind the helm of their lives and set a course for a definite destination, for they know "where there's a will there's an A." Underachievers, on the other hand, don't set goals for the school year and are like ships without rudders and will end up helplessly adrift. Many people spend more time thinking about a menu or what songs to download on their iPod then they do planning their own futures or their children's. Now is the time to take out a sheet of paper and state your game plan and goals. A good place to start is to write down the titles of twenty-five books you and your child plan to read this year. I polled local educators and asked them what school year's resolutions they wished parents should make and keep. Here's what teachers wish parents would resolve to do for their children:
If you want to learn more about how to succeed, be a winner, and have your child have a bright future as in a college scholarship, read/listen to these energizing books. For adults:
For teens:
For intermediate:
For rooky readers:
See this month's associated Reading Calendar (pdf)
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