The Strength Switch, Lea Waters
The Strength Switch, Lea Waters
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The Strength Switch
How The New Science of Strength-Based Parenting Can Help Your Child and Your Teen to Flourish

Author: Lea Waters

Narrator: Olivia Mackenzie-Smith

Unabridged: 8 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 07/11/2017

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

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. Yet more on the plus side: parents find it a particularly exciting and rewarding way to raise children. 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 even how to deal with problem behaviors and talk about difficult situations and emotions. As revolutionary yet simple as Mindset and Grit, The Strength Switch will show parents how a small shift can yield enormous results.

**Bonus PDF included with exercises and resources related to Strength Parenting. 

About The Author

Lea Waters, Ph.D., is President of the International Positive Psychology Association and the Gerry Higgins Chair in Positive Psychology at the University of Melbourne, Australia. 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 was the Founding Director of the Centre for Positive Psychology at the University of Melbourne and was listed in the Top 100 Women of Influence by The Australian Financial Review in 2015. She has also served as a consultant to a wide range of businesses. Waters lives in Melbourne, Australia, with her husband, Matthew Scholes; her son, Nicholas; and her daughter, Emily.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Laura on February 18, 2020

Great read, with so many examples to implement growth mindset language in a realistic way. I understood the concept from earlier readings and studying parenting techniques but this book gave me more natural phrases and words to use day to day and in the moment with my kids. I already notice being ab......more

Goodreads review by Synthia on January 30, 2019

This is how I intentionally raise my daughter, with a “Strength Switch” approach. Actionable advice: Share strength stories with your kids. Rather than repeatedly reminding your children of the time they were too afraid to dive into the swimming pool, make a point of telling stories that illustrate th......more