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Your child's strengths : discover them, develop them, use them / Jenifer Fox.

Fox, Jenifer. (Author).

Summary:

A book for parents and teachers that explores how children's individual strengths create success. Educator Fox is poised to change the conversation about education in this country. For too long, parents and teachers have focused on identifying and "fixing" kids' weaknesses--this book turns that flawed paradigm on its head. Fox's strengths-based philosophy provides the tools to prepare kids for the future in a world that demands greater adaptability and creative thinking than ever before. She gives parents and teachers the tools to discover strengths in three main areas working in tandem: Activity Strengths, the tasks that make us feel engaged and energized; Relationship Strengths, the things we do for and with others that make us feel valued and competent; and Learning Strengths, the ways we approach and understand new information. This book is a road map for young people and society to a future that plays to strengths.--From publisher description.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0670018767
  • ISBN: 9780670018765
  • Physical Description: xxii, 342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Viking, 2008.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Includes index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Part 1 Weakness Habit 5 -- Chapter 1 Face of Weakness 7 -- Chapter 2 Standardization and the Weakening of the Individual 29 -- Chapter 3 High Cost of a Brand-Name College 37 -- Chapter 4 Learning Disabilities for Dummies 46 -- Chapter 5 Myth of Adolescent Rebellion 60 -- Part 2 A Strengths Awakening 69 -- Chapter 6 Your Three Types of Strengths 74 -- Chapter 7 Setting the Stage for Discovery and Development 96 -- Chapter 8 Strengths are for Younger Kids, Too 119 -- Chapter 9 Barriers and Bridges: Making the Strengths Life Possible 138 -- Chapter 10 This Approach is for Life 154 -- Part 3 Create Your Future, Play to Your Strengths Workbook 161 -- How it Works 171 -- Activity Strengths 178 -- Relationship Strengths 196 -- Learning Strengths 217 -- Looking to the Future 232 -- A My Strengths Inventory: Hat, Vest, Shoes 243 -- B Affinities Program 259.
Subject:
Child development.
Ability in children.
Child rearing.
Teaching.
Education > Parent participation.

Available copies

  • 11 of 11 copies available at NC Cardinal.
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Onslow County Public Library. (Show)

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