Academic Achievement

RIMM'S LAWS OF ACHIEVEMENT RIMM'S LAW #1 Children are more likely to be achievers if their parents join together to give the same clear and positive message about school effort and expectations.  RIMM'S LAW #2 Children can learn appropriate behaviors more easily if they have effective models to imitate. RIMM'S LAW #3 What adults say to each other about a child within his or her hearing dramatically affects that child's behaviors and self-perceptions. RIMM'S LAW #4 If parents overreact to their children's successes and failures, the children are likely to feel either intense pressure to succeed or despair and discouragement in dealing with failure. RIMM'S LAW #5 Children feel more tension when they are worrying about their work than when they are doing that work. RIMM'S LAW #6 Children develop self-confidence through struggle. RIMM'S LAW #7 Deprivation and excess frequently exhibit the same symptoms. RIMM'S LAW #8 Children develop confidence and an internal sense of control if they are given power, in gradually increasing increments, as they show maturity and responsibility. RIMM'S LAW #9 Children become oppositional if one adults allies with them against a parent or a teacher, making them more powerful than the adult. RIMM'S LAW #10 Adults should avoid confrontations with children unless they are reasonably sure they can control the outcomes. RIMM'S LAW #11 Children will become achievers only if they learn to function in competition. RIMM'S LAW #12 Children will continue to achieve if they usually see the relationship between the learning process and it outcomes. "Underachievers usually begin as apparently bright and often very verbal preschoolers, but at some point their enthusiasm for learning and their satisfactory school performance change -- gradually for some, suddenly and dramatically for others."

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