Is your bright child doing poorly in school?
Today 35 percent of kids between fifteen and seventeen are performing below the appropriate grade level or have dropped out of school. (U.S. News & World Report)

Are your teenager's failing grades keeping her from getting into a good college?
Forty-four million American adults over age sixteen have no high school diploma and less than 22 percent over age twenty-five have a college degree. (USA Today)

Is getting your child to do his homework or chores such a battle that you end up taking care of your child's responsibilities for him?
Twelve percent of children ages five to seventeen have difficulty performing one or more everyday activities, including learning communication, mobility and self-care. (America's Children)

Is your child difficult to motivate without offers of gifts or rewards?
The reward for school success should be increased self-respect and a renewed enjoyment of learning - not a new toy or cash - or the child will likely become dependent on rewards to accomplish even the smallest tasks. (Newsweek)

"I'll do it later." "I forgot." "Don't worry - that was last marking period." "Stop bugging me." Kids who are failing at school constantly use excuses and share three traits: no persistence to completion, lack of independent functioning, and inability to work within time limits. Parents and teachers often try tutoring, force or logic to try to get these underachievers to perform at a higher level. Most of the time they fail.
Now, noted psychologist Dr. Peter A. Spevak, whose ideas have received wide-spread media coverage over the past five years in over 300 television programs and newspapers, reveals his dynamic method and gives important tips for parents and teachers. He has motivated over 2,000 failing students to perform at or near their full potential.
Dr. Spevak explains how underachievers get stuck and why other methods don't work. Then he identifies the four kinds of underachievers and shows step-by-step techniques to recharge the motivational battery of failing kids and put each type of underachiever on the achievement track.