Jump-Starting Boys: Help Your Reluctant Learner Find Success in School and Life by Pam Withers and Cynthia Gill
"Absolutely and utterly intriguing […] it has given me some terrific skills that i want to use with my own son."—Pat Thurston, KGO-AM/San Francisco
(PRWEB) November 05, 2013
Jump-Starting Boys: Help Your Reluctant Learner Find Success in School and Life (Viva Editions 2013), by Pam Withers and Cynthia Gill, has been featured as an indispensable guide for the parents of boys. Savings for Sanity, a parenting blog, said, "This book makes things like school and life seem much easier for a parent and a teen to conquer," and that she was surprised by the number of questions this one book had answered.
Another popular mothering blog, Griffin's Honey, praised the book effusively: "I will be able to use this book over and over as a reference point for advice. I recommend this to all parents of boys, especially moms."
Jump-Starting Boys is also available as an audiobook.
Positive Solutions To Get Your Son Back on Track
It is no secret boys are falling behind in education, with fewer young men graduating from high school and enrolling in college every year. Filled with reassurance and support, Jump-Starting Boys has heart-warming true stories, take-action checklists and over 200 helpful tips. Educators and mothers themselves, authors Pam Withers and Cynthia Gill, MA, LMFT, turn fear and guilt into can-do confidence through easy techniques and achievable solutions. Finally—a book that truly targets concerned parents and helps you work with sons to make sure they beat the odds and become lifelong learners!
During her 30-year career as a high school teacher, Cynthia Gill worked on innovative curricula development and served as an academic dean while winning acclaim for her work in the classroom. She lives in Minneapolis. Pam Withers is the best-selling, award-nominated author of more than a dozen adventure novels. She lives in Vancouver.