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Education never ends. A good education opens doors and raises lots of questions. MegaSkills enables us to seek answers and keeps us questioning and wanting to know and to understand more.

This book is essentially about building our children's love of learning, not in the abstract, but in the specific, the real, the practical. This love of learning is what makes it possible for teachers to teach successfully. Without exaggeration, it is also what America's future depends on.

This book helps us put across the essential values of education, the pleasure of hard work, the delight in accomplishment, the joy of working together. How these expand our children's potential for learning in our age of technology and change is a consistent theme throughout this new edition. Truly, MegaSkills continues to be the best gift we can give to our children.

Dorothy Rich

At the time of the first edition of MegaSkills, the word "Internet" was not even mentioned. In the second edition in 1992, a few paragraphs on "The New Machines in Our Lives" addressed parent concerns about Nintendo and computer games.

Clearly, great advances have been made in the world, about and beyond machines, in the last five years. The number of TV channels grows. The concern about education has become stronger. There are on-going controversies about academic standards and our nation's ability to compete globally. Will our children be able to keep themselves focuses and directed, when there is so much information bombarding them? There is growing worry about whether they will have what it takes to learn when there is so much to learn. This edition reflects these concerns with these new and expanded features:

• Focus, a new MegaSkill, has been added with twenty new learning activities.
• Academic Objectives have been identified for each MegaSkills learning "recipe."
• Knowing What We're Teaching explains how MegaSkills combines academics, multiple intelligences, and character development.
• MegaSkills and the Technology Connection presents a brief guide to how MegaSkills connect with technology: what computers would say to us if they could give advice.
• Schoolabilities and Employabilities focuses on looking ahead to help us become more aware of what our children need for the new world of work.

And in the Appendix...

• MegaSkills Report Card is designed to help chart children's progress in MegaSkills at home and in school.
• Research Notes present updated references on children's learning and parent involvement.
• MegaSkills Library for Children has been expanded, providing related children's books and parent/teacher resources for each MegaSkill.

Author and educator, Dr. Dorothy Rich, creator of MegaSkills, is known as the Dr. Spock of education. MegaSkills Programs, used by over 3,000 schools in 48 states to build student achievement, help parents learn how to teach children MegaSkills -- the basic qualities needed for success in school and in life...Confidence, Motivation, Effort, Responsibility, Initiative, Perseverance, Caring, Teamwork, Common Sense, Problem Solving and Focus.