Not Now, Maybe Later: Helping Children Overcome Procrastination

by Joanne Foster

Overview

Parents and teachers will appreciate this guide to understanding procrastination, primarily in children, and to providing straight-forward strategies for helping children develop skills to improve productivity. Procrastination relates to many important aspects of life, including success and failure, school-related and other activities, an individual's thoughts and feelings, and motivation. Not Now, Maybe Later provides over 250 tips on battling procrastination for both children and adults to use now (not later).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781935067405
Publisher:	Gifted Unlimited, LLC
Publication date:	01/23/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	212
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Joanne Foster, EdD is a parent, teacher, gifted education specialist, university instructor, educational consultant, and award-winning author who has worked in the field of gifted education for over 30 years. She conducts teacher-training workshops, gives presentations to educators and parent organizations in local, national, and international forums, and serves on several advisory committees concerning children's education and optimal development. She is co-author (with Dona Matthews) of Being Smart about Gifted Education (2009), and Beyond Intelligence: Secrets for Raising Happily Productive Kids (2014). Dr. Foster is also the sole author of Not Now, Maybe Later: Helping Children Overcome Procrastination (2015). She wrote "ABCs of Being Smart," a series of feature articles for the National Association for Gifted Children's magazine Parenting for High Potential, and her column "Fostering Kids' Success" appears at The Creativity Post online. Her writing appears in many other publications around the world. Dr. Foster taught Educational Psychology at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto for twelve years, and provides leadership in the areas of giftedness and high-level development.