#Teens growing up too fast how to#
She has authored many books including How to Parent So Children Will Learn and Why Bright Kids Get Poor Grades, both 2008 National Best Books award winners from USA Book News. Families come from all over the United States for help. Rimm is a psychologist, director of Family Achievement Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio, and is a clinical professor at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine. Sylvia Rimm’s nine years as a contributing correspondent to NBC’s Today Show and as a favorite personality on public radio make her a familiar child psychologist to many audiences.ĭr. Rimm has penetrated the secret world of today's "tweens." Here this trusted authority-the best-selling author of See Jane Win-gives readers the concrete parenting advice they need to guide their kids through these modern pressures to a bright and promising future.ĭr. As a result of these surveys and the more than 300 focus group sessions she conducted, Dr. Sylvia Rimm surveyed more than 5,400 third- through eighth-grade students from a wide variety of backgrounds and communities in 18 states. That is the unsettling discovery that emerges from the most extensive probe of America's middle schoolers ever conducted.ĭr.
While most parents remember high school as the time when they encountered sex, drugs, alcohol, body image issues, and other typically "teenage" concerns, today's kids are running into these issues as early as fourth grade. In this startling book, now issued in paperback, a leading child psychologist reveals the results of an unprecedented survey of America's pre-teens-and helps parents deal with the troubling findings
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