Reviewer: Sherie Huber, MS Education Admin, MS SEL(Benedictine University)
Description: This book is about raising children, based on seven natural instincts. The authors' writing style uses examples to keep the topics interesting and allows for skimming of the text without losing important content.
Purpose: The purpose is to raise children with empathy and curiosity, using children's natural strengths. The strategies are practical and seemingly simple. The authors reach these objectives with an easy-to-read writing style, supported by examples. The book is relevant in the present day when people have been isolated and children "lost" in between the virtual and real world of education.
Audience: This book is written for parents and practitioners. The authors emphasize using a child's curiosity and ways of learning by exploration to guide them to becoming strong adults with empathy/resilience and problem-solving skills. People naturally see deficits of children and want to "fix" them. The authors discuss reversing that view and facilitating growth using a child's individual strengths. As psychiatrists with previous writings and hands-on practice, the authors' expertise is easily recognized throughout the book.
Features: The book is divided into chapters and subtopics, which are clearly laid out in the table of contents, allowing any reader to skim for topics of interest. The titles clearly address the specifics of content contained in the pages. The authors begin with an introduction discussing their "journey," allowing the readers to connect with them. They seem like ordinary people with ordinary ideas that are extraordinary and have been previously taught. However, the ideas, methods and strategies are easily forgotten, as the authors point out, and need to remain fresh. The cover does not fit with the broad ideas of the text. People need to pick up the book and look inside, beyond the "1950s" pictorial.
Assessment: This book will remain timeless. As society becomes more isolated, the authors' views and techniques will become more important to practice. Other texts in the field of education have stressed individuality/strengths and importance of use in behavioral changes. This text takes it further with the style of writing and looks to the future. Special education basic texts do address writing goals in terms of strengths. This book would be excellent to use in a professional development group to help build/reinforce this.
Tenacity in Children examines how multiple generations of parents and caregivers raised children to become successful adults. Until relatively recent times in human history, there were no schools or organized institutions, nor were there parenting books. Rather, caregivers depended on the seven important instincts that evolved across tens of thousands of years in the human species. This volume highlights the ways in which these instincts are more important than ever in preparing children for tomorrow's successes. Key areas of coverage include individual chapters devoted to examining each of the seven instincts - intuitive optimism, intrinsic motivation, compassionate empathy, simultaneous intelligence, genuine altruism, virtuous responsibility, and measured fairness - as well as practical strategies to guide children in acquiring and fine-tuning these essential human instincts.Tenacity in Children provides a solid foundation to prepare children for a resilient and happy future. It offers well-defined guideposts for adults committed to providing every child with the opportunity to access, strengthen, and employ these instincts as they negotiate childhood and passage into adult life. This book also serves as a rich resource for researchers, practitioners, and graduate students in mental health and public health disciplines as well as many interrelated fields as we all strive to promote the well-being of children.The collaboration of these two esteemed psychologists has been impacting on our field for decades. This new book continues that tradition.- Richard D. Lavoie, M.A., M.Ed.Author of It's So Much Work to Be Your Friend:Helping Children with Learning Disabilities Find Social Success
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Tenacity in Children: Nurturing the Seven Instincts for Lifetime Success
Tenacity in Children examines how multiple generations of parents and caregivers raised children to become successful adults. Until relatively recent times in human history, there were no schools or organized institutions, nor were there parenting books. Rather, caregivers depended on the seven important instincts that evolved across tens of thousands of years in the human species. This volume highlights the ways in which these instincts are more important than ever in preparing children for tomorrow's successes. Key areas of coverage include individual chapters devoted to examining each of the seven instincts - intuitive optimism, intrinsic motivation, compassionate empathy, simultaneous intelligence, genuine altruism, virtuous responsibility, and measured fairness - as well as practical strategies to guide children in acquiring and fine-tuning these essential human instincts.Tenacity in Children provides a solid foundation to prepare children for a resilient and happy future. It offers well-defined guideposts for adults committed to providing every child with the opportunity to access, strengthen, and employ these instincts as they negotiate childhood and passage into adult life. This book also serves as a rich resource for researchers, practitioners, and graduate students in mental health and public health disciplines as well as many interrelated fields as we all strive to promote the well-being of children.The collaboration of these two esteemed psychologists has been impacting on our field for decades. This new book continues that tradition.- Richard D. Lavoie, M.A., M.Ed.Author of It's So Much Work to Be Your Friend:Helping Children with Learning Disabilities Find Social Success
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| BN ID: | 2940176344950 |
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| Publisher: | Post Hypnotic Press |
| Publication date: | 08/15/2021 |
| Edition description: | Unabridged |
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