Strengths Based Parenting
Developing Your Child's Innate Talents
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-1-59562-093-4 (ISBN)
Description
What makes your children thrive in school? What's the right learning environment for them? What extracurricular activities are best suited to their innate gifts? What will lead them to happy and fulfilling lives? And how can you be the most effective and supportive parent possible? Strengths Based Parenting addresses these and many other questions. But unlike many parenting books, Strengths Based Parenting focuses on understanding your children's innate talents and strengths -- what they're naturally good at and what they thrive doing -- not their weaknesses and "areas for improvement." Grounded in decades of Gallup research on strengths psychology, Strengths Based Parenting shows parents how to uncover their kids' top talents and help them thrive. Crucially, the book also helps parents uncover their own innate talents and shows them how to use those talents and strengths to be the most effective parents possible. Strengths Based Parenting includes access codes for strengths assessments for parents and kids, so the whole family discovers their innate talents.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Omaha
United States
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-59562-093-4 (9781595620934)
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Mary Reckmeyer is the executive director of Gallup's Donald O. Clifton Child Development Center in Omaha, NE. Under Reckmeyer's leadership, the Center has received national attention for excellence in early childhood education, workplace contribution, and developmental results, and it has helped thousands of children build their lives around their strengths. The Center has served as a model for schools nationwide and as a training center for teacher development and education. Reckmeyer has been with Gallup for more than 30 years. She has served as an educational and strengths-based development consultant and seminar leader; has studied talent-based interviews of more than 2,000 individuals, including children, teachers, and parents; and helped create the Clifton StrengthsExplorer, an assessment designed to identify talent in young people. Reckmeyer also coauthored How Full Is Your Bucket? for Kids, based on the number one New York Times bestseller How Full Is Your Bucket? Reckmeyer is a former preschool and elementary teacher who holds degrees in educational psychology and education. Her research focus is on youth strengths development, parents of minority achieving students, learning disabilities, educational programming, and lifespan development. She has studied outstanding schools and has conducted formal research into what makes an outstanding child care center. Reckmeyer studied at the University of Texas and the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. She and her husband live in Lincoln, NE, and have four children.