Your Child's Strengths

A Guide for Parents and Teachers

by Jennifer Fox

Number of pages: 368

Publisher: Viking Adult

BBB Library: Parenting, Psychology and Strengths

ISBN: 9780143115175



About the Author

Jennifer Fox has worked in day and boarding schools as a teacher and administrator for twenty five years. Fox is an inspiring master of the strength movement. She accompanied Marcus Buckingham in promoting the "Strength Movement" in New Jersey through her firsthand information as well as practical workbook tools.

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Editorial Review

Children are not that different from adults. They want clear and realistic goals, expectations for their futures, and systems that will allow them to arrive at those goals feeling fulfilled and stronger. They also want a voice in setting those goals and expectations for their futures. When children go to a particular college, take up a new hobby, or follow a career path just to please someone else, they end up in position of weakness, not strength.

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"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."

"Jennifer Fox wrote this book in an effort to change the philosophical conversation about how we raise and educate our children."

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