The strength switch : how the new science of strength-based parenting can help you and your child flourish / Lea Waters, PhD.
By: Waters, Lea [author.].
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Avery, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 340 pages illustrations ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781101983645; 1101983647.Subject(s): Parenting | Parent and child | Parent and child | ParentingAdditional physical formats: Online version:: Strength switch.Item type | Current library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Book | South County | Nonfiction | Adult | 306.874 Wat (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 05000009193082 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-306) and index.
Part one: Laying the foundation. Standing for strength in a world obsessed with weakness ; The strength switch ; Understanding strengths ; The ages and stages of strength growth -- Part two: Building strengths. Attention, savoring, gratitude, and goofing off ; Mindfulness ; Self-control ; Communication ; Strength-based living in the real world ; Strong selves, strong families, strong communities, strong world.
The strength switch explains how making small shifts in one's parenting style can yield big results by uncovering a child's strengths, rather than focusing on his or her weaknesses.--Adapted from book jacket.