Your Childs Strengths, Jenifer Fox, M.Ed.
Your Childs Strengths, Jenifer Fox, M.Ed.
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Your Child's Strengths
Discover Them, Develop Them, Use Them

Author: Jenifer Fox, M.Ed.

Narrator: Renée Raudman

Unabridged: 12 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/12/2008

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

With this groundbreaking work, educator Jenifer Fox is poised to change the conversation about education in America. For too long, parents and teachers have focused on identifying and "fixing" kids' weaknesses to improve academic performance. Passionately written and informed by Fox's twenty-five years of experience, Your Child's Strengths 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.

Your Child's Strengths will give parents and teachers the tools to discover strengths in three main areas: Activity Strengths, the tasks that make you feel engaged and energized; Relationship Strengths, the things you do for and with others that make you feel valued and competent; and Learning Strengths, the unique ways you approach and understand new information. All three strengths work in tandem.

Pairing inspiring firsthand accounts of success with practical workbook tools and an outline of the award-winning Affinities Program Fox has implemented at her own school, this much-needed book is a user-friendly guide for parents, teachers, and administrators that will improve individual performance and an indispensable road map for young people and society to a future that plays to strengths.

About Jenifer Fox, M.Ed.

Jenifer Fox has worked in day and boarding schools, single-sex and coed schools, as a teacher and administrator for twenty-five years. She is currently head of the Purnell School in Pottersville, New Jersey. She holds a BS in communications from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, an MA in English from Middlebury College, and an MEd in school administration from Harvard University.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Megan

Like almost all parenting books I've read there are several themes I really like, and some points I wonder how many children the author really knows. I really wish some schools and society really did adopt some of these practices. It's a good reminder that children really have a finite time to be ch......more

Goodreads review by Joni

This just reinforces all our philosophies about raising children. Children need empathy and respect and it isn't helpful to focus on failures and punishment. It is also interesting to think about my own strengths and what things make me thrive.......more

Goodreads review by Iantha

I love the high school strengths program described in the appendix. I wish I had something like that growing up.......more

So far amazing...can't wait to get to the practical discoveries.......more