Parenting Sucks, But It Doesn’t Have To!

Parenting Sucks, But It Doesn’t Have To! is the title of the newest book by Phyllis Sdoia-Satz and Barry Satz.  It will debunk much of today’s ideas about how parents should behave toward their children.  The Satzes believe that the American “family” is slowly being eroded by the “new” ideas about parenting.  In today’s world, parents wonder why their children tell THEM what they want, and how soon they want it.  Phyllis and Barry Satz believe, like much of the world, that this kiind of “child-raising” is just plain foolish.  They believe that children must be held in check, they must learn respect for their elders, and despite the speed with which the world is passing, they must learn how to behave. They believe that children today are a “Me” generation,  a generation of “throw-away”, and a generation that has no respect for its elders.  That has to stop!!   Parenting Sucks, But It Doesn’t Have To! is the second in the “Sucks” series.  It will be available around September 2011. Look for it in the stores.

Sdoia-Satz Offers Summer Tutoring for Adults and Children

What are YOUR children doing this summer? Studies have shown that students often lose one to three months of learning over the summer break especially in Reading, Spelling and Math. With federal and state budgets not even giving schools enough tools for regular studies, students who would like programs for enrichment or remedial help are without resources. Do you REALLY want your child spending the whole summer playing video games and watching TV and forgetting most of what they struggled so hard to learn?

Continuing learning through tutoring during the summer months is a wonderful way of insuring a positive school year ahead. There are so many benefits to this.
1. Tutoring during the summer enables children to master important skills or explore areas of interest in a fun way, and feel a personal commitment through individualized one-on-one learning.
2. Tutoring during the summer can help students who didn’t do so well this year catch up and get ahead before the start of the new school year.
3. Tutoring helps develop self-esteem and confidence that may have been destroyed by getting bad grades during the regular school year.
4. Tutoring helps students master the benchmarks necessary for passing state reading, writing, and math standardized tests. .
5. Tutoring helps prepare students in high school by giving them the tools and confidence necessary to take the SAT’s and ACT’s.
6. Tutoring helops children with learning, physical or emotional challenges who can fall back because of skills lost during the summer months

We offer one-on-one tutoring in all academic subjects with warm, patient, understanding instructors with years of teaching experience who REALLY DO know how to make learning FUN!! Tutoring available at our locations or your home. Yes, we’ll even go to you. Reasonable rates. Call us at 305.754.3097.

Practicing Sucks…workshops, seminars, book signings

Barry and Phyllis Satz have been conducting workshops, seminars and book signings all over town for Practicing Sucks, But It Doesn’t Have To.  We have spoken at about 15 Barnes and Nobles, 5 Borders stores and several libraries.  On January 20th, Phyllis Sdoia-Satz and Barry Satz will talk about Practicing Sucks and demonstrate how it works at Books and Books at 265  Aragon Avenue at 7 PM. On January 22, Miami Dade School Board will host a 3-hour seminar for instructors from 9 AM to 12 PM based on the information in Practicing Sucks.  But It Doesn’t Have To! at David Lawrence School, 15000 Bay Vista Blvd. N. Miami. Dade County instructors will receive educational credit for attendance. On February 1st, the city of North Miami Public Beach will host a two hour seminar at the North Miami Beach Library 1601 N.E. 164 Street in North Miami Beach. Admission is free to all events. See you there.

Next Practicing Sucks Book Signing on October 25th

The next workshop and book signing for Practicing Sucks, But It Doesn’t Have to! will be on October 25, 2009 at 3:30 PM.  It is free and open to everyone and we’d really love to see all of you there.  At the last book signing, we proved to a whole new group of people that everyone can use the “Sucks” method to learn faster, easier, with more success and lesss frustration. Address: Borders, Aventura, 19925 Biscayne Blvd.  See you there!!

Book Signings and Mini Workshops for Practicing Sucks

For Immediate Release

October 6, 2009.  Barnes and Noble, Borders hosting series of book signings and workshops for Phyllis Sdoia-Satz and Barry Satz’s newest book PRACTICING SUCKS BUT IT DOESN”T HAVE TO!

 

Several Barnes and Noble and Borders bookstores around town are celebrating the “coming out” of Practicing Sucks, But It Doesn’t Have To!, the newest book  by Phyllis Sdoia-Satz and Barry Satz (Rowman and Littlefield) with book signings and half-hour workshops/demonstrations that will show how the revolutionary Practicing Sucks method works.      

• Monday,  October 12, 2009, 7 PM, Borders,  19925 Biscayne Blvd. Aventura, FL 305 935 0027 (changed to Sunday, October 25, 2009, 3 PM.)
• Thursday, October 15, 2009  4 PM, Barnes and Noble 2051 N. Federal Highway, Ft. Lauderdale 954 561 3732
• Thursday, October 15, 2009, 7 PM, Barnes and Noble  12405 N. Kendall Drive, Kendall, FL 305 598 7727
• Sunday, October 25, 2009, 3 PM, Borders, Aventura  19925 Biscayne Blvd. Aventura, FL
• Wednesday,  November 11, 2009 7 PM, Barnes and Noble, Boca Raton, FL
• Sunday, November 15, 2009 3 PM Borders, Aventura 19925 Biscayne Blvd. Aventura, FL
• Sunday, December 13, 2009 3 PM Borders, Aventura  19925 Biscayne Blvd., Aventura, FL

Practicing Sucks, But It Doesn’t Have To! is a new system of learning which teaches students, their families and their instructors how to derive the most benefit from instruction in the least possible time. In a no-nonsense but humorous style, it  offers hundreds of ideas, tips and suggestions which enable students to learn practically anything two to four times faster, easier, with more success and less frustration.

 

During the workshop/demonstration, Mr. and Mrs. Satz will take volunteers from the audience, teach them all the white keys on a piano keyboard, and how to read music notation and within  less than  ten minutes, the volunteers will play a simple piece on the piano by notes.

 

Although originally geared for music instruction, the Practicing Sucks, But It Doesn’t Have To! method works for anything requiring practice, study, repetition and memorization, and it actually cuts months, sometimes even years from the learning process. This new method of teaching/learning has engendered so much interest that the Florida Department of Education is including portions of the book in the new Sunshine States Standards. In addition, the Dade County School Board has scheduled a three hour seminar for school teachers, for which they will receive educational credit.

Friday, Sept. 25th We’re on Comcast Newsmakers

On Friday, september 25th, 2009 we will tape a spot on Comcast Newsmakers. We’ll tell you all about Practicing Sucks, But It Doesn’t Have To! by Phyllis Sdoia-Satz and Barry Satz. The 5 minute spot will air 40 times during the month of October.  Look for us.

Publication date: August 28, 2009

Rowman and Littlefield has announced that they will have Practicing Sucks, But It Doesn’t Have To, written by Phyllis Sdoia-Satz and Barry Satz  on the bookshelves on August 28, 2009, and have already scheduled abooksigning at Borders in South Miami right before that. What’s great about the Sdoia-Satz Method that is explained in Practicing Sucks is that it works for ANYTHING (not just music instruction) that requires practice, study and repetition. That means the golfer and tennis player  can use this method to improve their game. The gymnast can use the ideas in Practicing Sucks to improve gymnastics practice. The skater can use these methods, and someone who has homework every night can improve the efficiency and get it done in less time using the ideas in Practicing Sucks.  For information on how to order the book go to http://www.rowmaneducation.com/Catalog/SingleBook.shtml?command=Search&db=^DB/CATALOG.db&eqSKUdata=1607090074

Practicing Sucks Is the Real Deal.

 

It has come to our attention that, in an effort to increase business in this lean economy,  several music schools have been telling  prospective students that Sdoia-Satz Music Institute is ridiculously  expensive, and that their school ”uses the same methods” as Sdoia-Satz and  they charge a lot less. A word to the wise:  When looking for fine music instruction, NEVER, NEVER be misled by false advertising.  If you talk to music schools, don’t just accept what they tell you out-of-hand. Ask questions, lots of questions. Make them prove what they say (as we do. See our website www.sdoiasatz.com)

 

The facts are these: The Sdoia-Satz Music Method teaches students how to learn practically anything (not just music) that requires study, repetition, and practice in such a way as to maximize success, minimize frustration and cut the learning time by at least half.  That’s who we are; that’s what we do, we have proven again and again that the method works, and frankly, there just isn’t any substitute.

 

Oh, and about us costing more: Although studying with Sdoia-Satz may seem more expensive, it really isn’t. Because students achieve their goals two – four times faster than other learning programs, in the long run, it actually costs less. Besides, in keeping with the downturn in the economy, Sdoia-Satz Music Institute has recently reduced some charges, removed some pre-requisites and is offering options that reduce the cost of music instruction substantially.   Our prices are now not just “competitive”.  We might just be beating the competition, in cost as well as quality.

 

The very unique, revolutionary methods used at Sdoia-Satz Music Institute were created by us, they are copyrighted, they have been demonstrated dozens of times on national and regional TV and Phyllis Sdoia-Satz has written a series of books and CD’s about them (Warner Bros., Alfred Music). The most recent book, “Practicing Sucks…But It Doesn’t Have To!!!” is being published by Rowman and Littlefield and will be on the bookshelves summer, 2009.  In addition, hundreds of articles have been written in newspapers, magazines, and newsletters across the country, about the Sdoia-Satz Method.

 

 It is said that imitation is the most sincere form of flattery, and Sdoia-Satz Music Institute is pleased that other music schools find the little tidbits they have heard about our methods so worthwhile. But it takes more than just appreciation, or an attitude of “oh, I can do that, too” to be able to use the Sdoia-Satz Method with consistent success.  First of all, it takes very special teacher training in the Sdoia-Satz Method. Then, it takes a realization that the method really works, — remarkably well. And, — most important, it requires a sincere desire (of both the student and the teacher) to want to go “where no man has gone”, and to be willing to push the walls, the envelope, the barriers and the frontiers–HARD in order to achieve the desired goals.  

 

So, if you still want the best in music instruction and think you can’t afford it, think again. Don’t “settle” for less.  In the private sector, Sdoia-Satz Music Institute is, and always has been—the very best.  Call 305.754.3097.

 

 

 

 

More About Practicing Sucks

We are now heavily into revising Practicing Sucks…But It Doesn’t Have To!!! for Rowman and Littlefield. Strange, it doesn’t look anything like the original manuscript. 

Parents — did you know that if you don’t get your child’s instrument fixed, the child will be frustrated when he/she tries to practice?  And if you offer the child a “reward” of not practicing on the weekend if he/she practices well during the week, you are giving a REWARD for not practicing?  Better to suggest, ” ‘Practice early’, so that you have the rest of the day free.”  Keep an eye out here. I’ll write another couple of tips for how to practice and get the best benefit from your practice soon.

Phyllis Sdoia-Satz

PRACTICING SUCKS…But It Doesn’t Have To!!!

We just heard from Rowman and Littlefield that PRACTICING SUCKS…But It Doesn’t Have To!!! is not going to be in the stores until about March 2009.  It takes that long to do the editing and all the other things it takes to produce a book. That means we miss the winter holiday season.  That’s not good.  One could even say that IT SU…  well, you know what I mean.