I've seen Sylvia Rimm's work on underachievement mentioned several times here. I had a look at her website, and there seem to be a lot of different books, workbooks, cassettes, etc.
Does anyone have a recommendation? I'm thinking of purchasing the book (why smart kids get poor grades)
I took her short on-line quiz, and confirmed that I have a "dominant underachiever" on my hands in DS11 (which I pretty much knew, but didn't have a name for it).
I like the book
why smart kids get poor grades and would recommend it. It's information packed, but tends to have a 'blame the parents' slant which I think is probably very appropriate for 'regular bright' and 'regular gifted' - however, on page 274, she notes that even excellent parenting can still yield this problems if the classroom fit is so very poor.
So if you can hold in mind that irony while you read, I would say that lots of excellent information can be had. And you certianly don't want to make any innocent parenting mistakes, so it's nice to know what the common pitfalls are.
But please don't go on a self-blamathon while you read it. I know I did until page 274.
Even though I really enjoyed the depth of information in the book, and it told me what NOT to do, I didn't feel like it gave me the full picture of what TO do, once I got the school fit problem sorted out. For that I really liked 'Transforming the Difficult Child Workbook' by Lisa Bravo and Howard Glasser.
Love and More Love,
Grinity
