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Predicting Success in Education and Career
1 = There is NO depression, alcoholism, child or sexual abuse in the parents.
1 = Normal Full term delivery with normal prenatal experience without alcohol, drugs, chronic stress, and smoking.
2 = Child can talk with 4 to 5 word sentences at 24 months old.
1 = Child is in the top five or in the honor roll from grades 1 to 5.
1 = Child’s close friends are also in the top of the class or honor students also.
2 = Parents are both college graduate and steady have jobs.
2 = Parents are married and do not have marital problems during the first 18 years
Give one or two points if the sentence is fulfilled or answer is yes. The maximum score is 10.
If there is depression, alcoholism, or child/sexual abuse in the parents, give minus 5. Give plus 1 if there no history of depression, alcoholism, or child/sexual abuse in parents.
If the pregnancy is not normal especially mother smoked, with chronic stress, had drugs or alcohol, give a zero. Give plus 1 if the pregnancy is normal. If the baby’s gestational age at birth is 33 weeks or less, give minus 2.
If the child can say one or two word phrase at 24 months old, give plus 1. Give plus 2 if the child can talk in 4 to 5 word sentence at 2 years old.
If the child is not in the honor roll from grade 1 to 5, give zero. If the child is in the honor roll from grade 1 to 5 give plus 1.
Give a zero if the friends are not in the honor roll. Give plus 1 if friends are in the honor roll also.
Give plus 2 if both parents are college graduate with steady jobs. If parents are high school graduate but with a job, give plus 1. If parents not employed, give zero.
If both parents are together (not separated or divorced) when the child graduated high school, give a plus 2. If parents are divorced give plus 1.
Add the values assigned to each of the seven statements. The higher the score near 10, the greater the chance that the child/teen will finish college and will get the job of their choice and succeed.
I arrived at this Success Score knowing the history of many of former patients who finished higher education and now successful in their careers. Eleven of my former patients are now physicians.
Leo Leonidas, MD, FAAP, Assistant Clinical Professor in Pediatrics, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston; Attending Pediatrician, Eastern Maine Medical Center, Bangor, Maine
Please send my your suggestions and comments to improve this site:
lleonidas@pcpediatrics.org
I wrote and desinged this website for parents of our practice. Before you use ideas from this website, please discuss it first with your clinician if you are not with our practice.
copyright Leo Leonidas 2002
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