Helping Students Through Senior School Package

For Parents: The Years that Count (2^nd Ed) by Kirrilie Smout.  Filled with real life stories, facts and over 100 helpful hints, this book is a guide for any parent with a teenager in Year 10, 11 or 12. 

It has chapters on topics including: helping young people make decisions about their future, helping young people get motivated, helping students who experience high levels of stress, dealing with senior school socializing and parties, getting uncommunicative teens to talk and much more. 

I am thrilled to say that I have heard of this book being passed from parent to parent in schools I have never been to, across Australia and as far away as England.  One parent told me she kept it on her bedside table for the whole year as her “teen bible”!

Contents Include:  Increasing Communication with Teens, Helping Teens Manage Stress, Reducing Conflict with Teens, Helping Teens Consider their Future, Helping Teens with Exams, Parties/Gatherings/Formals - What Parents should Know, Sleep - Helping Teens Get Enough.

This book is sold as a package with Succeed in Senior School (below) for $50 (both books and postage included)

For Students: Succeed in Senior School by Kirrilie Smout.  This workbook is easy to read, short and sweet (with cartoons) and designed for teens with not much time (or motivation!).  It gives ideas about how to get organized, how to remember what to do, how to reduce procrastination, how to revise so that information “sticks”, how to deal with stress, get a better sleep and a lot more. 

This book can be used by parents to give teens ideas, by teens who want to improve their grades, and by parents as a way of starting conversations ("So do you agree or disagree with this bit?) with their teens.  It is also used by several schools in their study skills curriculum.

Contents:  Increasing Organisational Habits, How to Motivate yourself to do homework and Study, How to Remember Information for tests and Exams, Calming Down and Dealing with Stress, Increasing Healthy Sleep and Nutrition.

  Bulk discounts for schools available, please contact me by email:  kirriliesmout@innovateonline.net