What Every Christian Parent (and Teen) Should Know About Study Skills For High School Students And College Success Skills It's a lot of work to empower your teens to succeed in high school and prepare for college, let alone raise your teens to be godly adults. You may even feel overwhelmed by the daunting task of giving your teens the advice and guidance they need. Success Skills for High School, College, and Career (Christian Edition) is an empowering resource you can use to equip your teens with the biblical values, leadership, soft skills, and academic success skills they need to succeed in the classroom and on the job, even if you are not an academic success coach or Bible scholar. Skills in time management, communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and problem solving are commonly referred to as soft skills. These skills work together with leadership and academic success skills to help your teen succeed in the classroom. And these skills are also highly valued by employers.    Think of it like this: equipping your teens with leadership, soft skills, and academic success skills while they are in high school will empower their success right now and will also prepare them for college and career success in the future.    If you want to train up your teens in the way they should go in their education and career, this book is for you.   A 60-page application workbook is available as a free download. "Success Skills for High School, College, and Career (Christian Edition) should be required reading for juniors and seniors in every Christian school." -Kevin Cyprian, Principal, Newport Christian School "Success Skills for High School, College, and Career (Christian Edition) is a must-read for any young Christian who has the goal of keeping their commitment to God while climbing the ladder of success." -Monica Irvine, President of The Etiquette Factory Discover the secrets from my personal story that help Christian parents equip their teens to succeed My name is Cary J. Green, PhD, and I am a Christian author, speaker, and coach in the academic coaching space. Many parents and students call me "the guy who went from a D to a PhD." Over the last 25 years I have been equipping students with the skills they need to succeed in the classroom and on the job using a savvy approach to academic and career success that few in the coaching world have access to. So...why do I do what I do? Let me share a brief story with you. It may help you understand why I'm a  good person for you to listen to. I was a bewildered freshman trying to adjust to life on campus and become a successful college student. I really wanted to succeed in college, just like I had succeeded in high school.   I wanted to do well in my classes so I could earn a college degree and get a great job.   However, I was failing my chemistry tests.   I was so frustrated because I was working hard and could not for the life of me figure out why I was failing. My approach worked in high school; why wasn't it working in college?   I felt even worse because I thought I wouldn't be able to reach my educational and career goals. I felt like I was not smart enough to get a college degree.   I felt like a failure. I felt that I had let my parents and girlfriend down.   The problem was that, even though I had graduated in the top 10% of my high school class, I got a D in freshman chemistry.   I told myself I couldn't handle my college classes and that I was not smart enough to succeed. I doubted myself and my abilities. I wanted to give up on my goals. The Holy Spirit revealed to me that my chemistry grade was the symptom, not the problem. The problem was that I was limited by a lack of success skills.   The Holy Spirit then led me to a wonderful discovery: I knew I could get the grades I was capable of getting by cranking up my soft skills and academic success skills.   I had tried to succeed in college using the same skills I used to succeed in high school, but the skills I used in high school were not enough.   In fact, the simple truth is that we need to improve our skills each time we advance in our education and career.   So, my plan was to start working smarter by developing new skills and improving my current skills.   I prayed for wisdom and started honing my time management and organizational skills.   I then developed my problem-solving and critical thinking skills.   After that, I learned how to take great notes and ramped up my test-prep and test-taking skills. I took the freshman chemistry class again and earned an A. I took the next chemistry class and earned an A in that class as well. I even earned an A in physical chemistry in grad school. I don't think my IQ increased, but I developed my success skills, and these skills made me "smarter."   Developing my success skills enabled me to go from a D in freshman chemistry to a PhD, and despite nearly flunking out of college, I landed a great job as a professor. To help my student