The Bonsai Student: Why modern parenting limits children's potential at school and practical strategies to turn it around - Paperback

Dr Judith Locke is a registered clinical psychologist, former teacher, school counsellor and workplace trainer. She is the director of Confident and Capable^(R), a company specialising in psychological training solutions for parents, children, teachers, and others in schools, childcare centres, government and community organisations, and private companies. Judith also provides clinical assistance to families and individuals in her private practice in Toowong, Queensland.

Judith's research at the Queensland University of Technology investigated modern parenting, family wellbeing, and how children and parents interact with academic environments. Her psychological commentary, including a weekly parenting column for The Sunday Mail, features regularly in the media. Judith is a member of the Australian Psychological Society (APS) and the APS College of Clinical Psychologists. She became an ambassador for Life Education Queensland in 2020.

Judith's first bestselling book, The Bonsai Child, discusses problems with current well-meant parenting practices and shows parents practical ways to turn their situation around. This book, The Bonsai Student, focuses on children's school experience and gives parents useful and realistic strategies to ensure their children develop confidence, capability and independence in their studies to give them the best chance of future success and satisfaction in their work and personal lives.