New Resource Book For Parents and Educators Offers Valuable Guidance To Help Children Succeed at School.

Parents and educators are often frustrated with educational systems that dont always work in the best interest of each individual child. Twenty-year education veteran, former teacher, principal, professor and State Department of Education Official, Laura Cobb, understands these obstacles within various educational settings. In her newly released book, Most Likely To Succeed; How to Assure Your Childs Success in School," she shares tested methods, simple tools and effective solutions for improving the quality of any childs educational experience. This book is sure to become a valuable resource for parents and teachers alike.

Twenty-year education veteran, Laura Cobb, shares a wealth of personal and professional experience within the pages of a new book that is being praised as a comprehensive resource for parents, teachers, school administrators and anyone who works with children.

This informal resource book, Most Likely To Succeed; How to Assure Your Childrens Success at School, offers literally hundreds of ideas and suggestions for busy parents to help enhance their childrens educational experience from kindergarten to college. Ms. Cobbs warmth and humor, along with the user-friendly format, makes this book an easy and quick read. Readers will learn how to improve parent-teacher communications, motivation strategies, study skills, discipline options that work and other ways to help students excel at school.

Ms. Cobb leaves no stone unturned. She covers all the important subjects, including children with special needs, how busy parents can do small things that make a big difference, working with school officials to create change, choices in educational settings, test-taking skills, finding funding for college and a wealth of additional information and resources. Parents and educators will have a better understanding of each other and will learn how to work together as a team to benefit their children.

Most Likely To Succeed is a fabulous gift to parents who wonder what more they could be doing to help their children be successful. From pre-school to going off to college, this book is a handy, easy-to-read guide for parents. It answers parents questions and gives them information they really need to know. Parents will love this book. So will teachers!" -- Gloria Amescua, Director of Language Arts, Round Rock School District.

Books come and go but this one certainly warrants your attention. If you have a child in your life ---whether you are a parent, teacher or community worker -- you need this book. The ideas expressed by this obviously experienced educator provides simple tools that will help you give the young people in your life the head start that all children deserve." -- Kenneth R. Gilbert, Director & President, Head Start of Texas.

   Author Laura Cobb is vice president of a private educational firm and a full-time mom. She has won awards for her outstanding leadership in education. Her book and career has been featured in interviews with Weekend Edition Show of a popular radio station in Dallas, Allen American, Dallas Weekly and Grand Prairie Black News. Ms. Cobb is a frequent contributor to various publications, including Parent Guide News and Collin Country Kids. She has been appointed the Education Editor of Family Digest Magazine commencing September, 2003.

   Most Likely To Succeed; How to Assure Your Childs Success in School, by Laura Cobb, ISBN# 1-930586-35-3; US $19.95, published by American University & College Press, an imprint of American Book Publishing, Salt Lake City, UT, may be ordered directly from the publishers direct web-site. To receive your discounted copy with quick delivery, please visit www.pdbookstore.com.

This book is also available for bulk discount purchases,special editions, and corporate imprints. For more information on special orders, please contact orders@american-book.com or call 801-486-8639.