The Successful Student : A Parent's Guide to Motivation, Organization, Confidence, and Independence
Overview
The successful student is built, not born.
Missing assignments. Nightly homework battles. Hours of studying that never show up on the test. When a capable child keeps struggling in school, parents often hear the same explanation: he's lazy, she's not trying, they just don't care. Marc Hoberman has spent more than thirty years as an educator proving that explanation wrong.
In The Successful Student, Hoberman, the Founder and Director of Grade Success Education, gives parents a clear, practical plan for helping children develop the skills schools expect but rarely teach. Drawing on decades of classroom teaching, tutoring, and coaching, as well as his own experience as a teenager facing epilepsy, he shows parents how to move from manager to coach.
Across sixteen chapters, parents learn how to:
- Build the executive function skills behind the grades, including planning, organization, time management, and follow-through
- Replace homework wars with clear agreements and a simple help ladder
- Teach study methods that actually work and reduce test anxiety
- Use language that builds motivation and confidence instead of labels
- Partner with teachers and help students advocate for themselves
- Navigate SAT and ACT preparation, college pressure, and artificial intelligence without doing the work for their child
- Recognize when they are helping too much, and how to step back without stepping away
Every chapter ends with Put It Into Practice, a short set of steps families can try that same week. There are no perfect students and no perfect parents, only better systems and steady progress.
Whether your child is in middle school, high school, or preparing for college, The Successful Student will help you raise a learner who is more organized, more confident, and more independent, in school and beyond.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9798234265975
- ISBN-10: 9798234265975
- Publisher: Grade Success
- Publish Date: October 2026
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.33 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.48 pounds
- Page Count: 156
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