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.

Sdoia-Satz Institute Offers Writing Services

Sdoia-Satz Institute now offers a complete line of personalized, creative writing services, from simple editing to writing the piece for you.

Don’t be fooled by cheap “by-the-page” offers. Remember, there aren’t any free lunches. With other places,as the work progresses, you may be unpleasantly surprised at how “hidden charges” and “extra services” add up to much more than what you thought the project would cost. On the other hand, you may be offered a really cheap price, and that’s exactly the kind of job you may get. Remember, If the quoted price “seems too good to be true”, it usually is. You get what you pay for.

With us, there are NO HIDDEN CHARGES, no surprises at the end of the project. We keep you continually informed and work with you from start to finish to produce the kind of project that you’ll be proud to say is YOURS. And the price we set at the beginning of the project, won’t change at the end.

If you can think it, we can write it. We can write your proposals, essays, theses, correspondence, web site content, personal statements for admission to school, even your statements to go with I-601s applications. If you need assistance writing term papers for school, we can help. If you have ideas for a book or a story, we can write it for you. If you’ve already written the piece, and what you need is someone to make the words, dance, sing and sparkle, we can do that. If all you need is simple editing or proofreading, we can do that too. No project too small or too large. We offer a very personalized service and we promise you will be satisfied with the result. We have a fast turn-around time and a convenient location five minutes east of I 95 near the Golden Glades Interchange. We offer fair, honest competitive rates. Call us at 305.754.3097. You’ll be glad you did.

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.

Book Signings for Practicing Sucks

Thursday, October 15, 4 PM Barnes and Noble Ft. Lauderdale

Thursday, October 15, 7 PM, Barnes and Noble, Kendall

Sunday,  October 25, 2009 at 3 PM Borders Aventura  19925 Biscayne Blvd.

Sunday, November 22, 2009 3 PM Borders Aventura

Sunday, December 13, 2009 3 PM Borders Aventura

Taped Comcast 5 minute Spot Sept. 25th

Yesterday, we taped the 5 minute spot on Comcast Newsmakers for Practicing Sucks, But It Doesn’t Have To!, the newest book by Phyllis Sdoia-Satz and Barry Satz.  It will be aired 40x during the month of October.  They are going to send us a tape of it, because we haven’t seen it yet.

Practicing Sucks is on Amazon and Barnes and Noble websites

For a while, Practicing Sucks wasn’t available on the Barnes and Noble Website but now it is.  For a listing of all Phyllis Sdoia-Satz works including Practicing Sucks, But It Doesn’t Have To, in the Barnes and Noble search dialog box type, “Phyllis Sdoia-Satz” and it will bring up all 6 of my works, including Practicing Sucks, But It Doesn’t Have To”.  So, look for it on Amazon, and Barnes and Noble.  It still isn’t on Borders, but we’re hoping that will change.

Today’s the day

Practicing Sucks, But It Doesn’t Have To is being shipped to the bookstores today.  Borders will have it, and also Barnes and Noble but it is NOT on their website. You have to go into the store to get it.  It’s also on Amazon and all 5 of my Husky Gang works are on Amazon as well.  If you Google “Phyllis Sdoia-Satz”, you’ll find a whole lot of places carrying the book besides Barnes and Noble and Borders.  Remember, Practicing Sucks has hundreds of tips to help students learn practically anything requiring study, memorizaiton, comprehension and repetition, faster, easier with more success and less frustration. And — a lot more fun learning.

Yesterday we did a radio interview about Practicing Sucks

Yesterday we did a radio interview with Maggie Linton on “Cover to Cover”.  Half hour interview.  The book is coming out on the 16th of September.  We have workshops and book signings all over town in Books and Books, Barnes and Noble and Borders starting in October.  Check the Barnes and Noble or Borders closest to you for dates, or come visit us here and we’ll give you dates, times, and store locations

Thanks Mr. E

It should have been out August 28, but Rowman and Littlefield are a little backed up. Glad you are so positive about the book. It really has some wonderful tips in it. Look for it in Barnes and Noble, Books and Books and Borders. You can also order it directly from etodd@Rowman.com.  We’re planning a ‘launch party” for the first day it appears in the stores.