The Strength Switch: How The New Science of Strength-Based Parenting Can Help Your Child and Your Teen to Flourish
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| Rating | : | 4.27 (711 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1101983647 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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Just Me said Positive psychology for parenting. This is one of the most important parenting books that I have encountered. It takes many of the recent findings from positive psychology and applies them to parenting.At the time I am writing this review, there is no “look inside” feature available for this book, so I will list the chapters. A useful book on Strength-Based Parenting with stories and lessons a Positive Parenting is just one of the many new ways for parents to raise their children, and "The Strength Switch" is another tool that parents may use to help with that philosophy, and like other parenting tools, such as Love & Logic, it can even work with spouses and coworkers. Written by a PhD and m. A breath of fresh air in today's negative world seagull This is a much-needed book for today's parents. At some point in the recent past, it seems that everything became about a child's self-esteem. Coaches and teachers started giving out "Participant" awards when kids simply showed up, rather than expecting a child to master skills and earn rewards and pra
Unlock your children’s potential by helping them build their strengths.This game-changing book shows us the extraordinary results of focusing on our children’s strengths rather than always trying to correct their weaknesses. Most parents struggle with this shift because they suffer from a negativity bias, thanks to evolutionary development, giving them “strengths-blindness.” By showing us how to throw the “strengths switch,” Lea Waters demonstrates how we can not only help our children build resilience, optimism, and achievement but we can also help inoculate them against today’s pandemic of depression and anxiety. As a strengths-based scientist for more than twenty years, ten of them spent focusing on strengths-based parenting, Waters has seen how this approach enhances self-esteem and energy in both children and teenagers. As revolutionary yet simple as Mindset and Grit, The Strength Switch will show parents how a small shift can yield enormous results.. With many suggestions for specific ways to interact with your kids, Waters demonstrates how to discover strengths and talents in our children, how to use positive emotions as a resource, how to build strong brains, and
She holds an affiliate position with Cambridge University’s Well-being Institute (UK) and the Center for Positive Organizations at the University of Michigan (USA). Waters lives in Melbourne, Australia, with her husband, Matthew Scholes; her son, Nicholas; and her daughter, Emily. Waters was the Founding Director of the Centre for Positive Psychology at the University of Melbourn
A wise and warm book!” —Scott Barry Kaufman, PhD, co-author of Wired to Create: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Creative Mind “Lea Waters points to a needed shift in the way we are parenting our children and teenagers. Follow the wisdom here and you will bring deep, lasting benefit to not only your child but yourself. By sharing parts of her own story of overcoming hardship, and presenting the latest science of positive psychology, Dr. Waters not only inspires parents to bring out the best in their children, but she inspires us all to be the best version of ourselves. Thanks to Dr. This terrific book not only helps us understand ourselves and our children better but also makes that understanding actionable!" —Angela Duckworth, PhD, a