Strengths Based Parenting: Developing Your Children's Innate Talents [Hardcover]

Strengths Based Parentingdoesn’t prescribe one “right” way to parent. Instead, author Mary Reckmeyer empowers parents to embrace their individual parenting style by discovering and developing their own — and their children’s — talents and strengths. With real-life stories, practical advice backed by Gallup data, and access to the Clifton StrengthsFinder and Clifton Youth StrengthsExplorer assessments,Strengths Based Parentingbuilds the foundation for positive parenting.

Strengths Based Parentingis grounded in decades of Gallup research on strengths psychology — including assessments of nearly 1 million young people — and highlighted in Gallup’s national bestsellerStrengthsFinder 2.0. More than 14 million people have taken the Clifton StrengthsFinder assessment to discover their unique combination of talents and strengths. Gallup knows that focusing on talents and strengths can improve the quality of people’s lives.

Now, inStrengths Based Parenting, Gallup extends strengths psychology to the most important operating system in the world — the family.

How can you discover your children’s unique talents? And how can you use your own talents and strengths to be the most effective and supportive parent possible?

Strengths Based Parentingaddresses these and other questions on parents’ minds. But unlike many parenting books,Strengths Based Parentingfocuses on identifying and understanding what your children are naturally good at and where they thrive — not on their weaknesses. The book also helps you uncover yourowninnate talents and effectively apply them to your individual parenting style.

Raising a child truly takes a village.Strengths Based Parentingcan help parents learn how to partner with teachers, coaches and other adults in their kids’ lives to create a positive, supportive envirol³J