What Kids Need to Succeed: Proven, Practical Ways to Raise Good Kids

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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 649.10973 EAN: 9781575420301 ISBN: 1575420309 Label: Free Spirit Publishing Manufacturer: Free Spirit Publishing Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 243 Publication Date: 1998-02 Publisher: Free Spirit Publishing Studio: Free Spirit Publishing
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Editorial Reviews: Designed for parents, teachers, community and youth leaders, and teens, "What Kids Need to Succeed" is a companion book to Free Spirit Publishing's "What Teens Need to Succeed" .
Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Great Foundation for Developing Healthy Kids Comment: The study that was conducted, upon which this book is based, is very revealing. The book defines 20 external and 20 internal assets that children need to succeed. Our company has developed these ideas into worksheets and used them in treatment. This book aides in better understanding these assets and how to address them. Again, not great reading but very good content. Customer Rating: Summary: Good Information Comment: As a clinically licensed Marriage & Family Therapist who has worked in a state agency for over 26 years with hard to handle youth, and also maintained a private psychotherapy practice for over 18 years, I must say that this is a VERY GOOD book. In over 20 years of teaching a weekly 2 hour parenting class I have seen many "parenting guides" come and go, and I'm not usually impressed by most of them. Many of the books simply reinforce parents need for emotionally leveraging the child into compliance. Short term looks great, long term BIG PRICETAGS. . .(like the kids won't come home for Christmas holidays, when they are 25 years old. . .etc) I think that too many of the "guides" teach parents to be RIGHT rather than CLOSE. In contrast to that position, the information contained in "What Kids Need to Succeed" is not only VERY pertinent to interacting with youth, but provides a basic outline of what needs are important to address with children/youth to help support them toward responsible, independent adulthood. I believe that the suggestions are sound in terms of being research based and from my experience certainly do yield great results. The approach is proactive and constructive, which is very reflective of what current research indicates works best. The conceptual foundation of encouragement and empowerment is (IMHO) the ONLY way to help children/youth INTEGRATE constructive, growth enhancing principles, rather than just reacting to demanding adults who require compliance. I liked the book a lot and will be adding it to the 4 other manuals that I use in teaching parenting skills. I would guess some parents will resist this approach because it requires them to give up trying to control and dominant the child and replace it with mentoring, friendship and alliance. . . All in all I really appreciate this book and it is required reading in all my classes now. Customer Rating: Summary: Trite, trite, trite Comment: This is a "Hallmark meets child development" sort of book. It's got lots of "paradigms" and concepts drawn (haphazardly, it would seem) from serious knowledge about the subject, but it's served up in a pretty simplistic way. The world it hearkens to seems more like a gated community than any real city I know. And the folksy, sometimes chummily evangelical, prose style is often clumsy and occasionally downright silly. Customer Rating: Summary: a very inspiring book on such an important subject Comment: This is one of those books that makes you keep telling yourself, I knew that. What makes it so fabulous is that it puts all those things you know are right together in a very useful format. Just looking through it renews your confidence that you can do something to make a difference to children. More Reviews