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The Parent Leader Series · Book 1
The Success Child
How to Raise Confident, Resilient and Determined Children, Through the Mirror Method
Your child is not listening to what you say. He is watching what you do when things go wrong.
A six-year-old told a jigsaw puzzle she was not clever enough for it. Her mother recognised the sentence immediately, because it was the way she talked about herself when the printer would not work. Nobody had taught the girl that line. She had assembled it from a thousand small moments of watching an adult she loves meet something difficult. This book is about those moments. It explains how children build their beliefs about their own ability long before anyone sits them down, and how a parent can change what is being transmitted without becoming a different person.
Inside this book
- Why telling a child he is clever makes him less willing to attempt hard things, and what to say instead
- The three pillars behind what we loosely call confidence: self-belief, courage and resilience, and how to tell which one your child is short of
- The five mirror moments where nearly all the teaching happens, none of which look like teaching
- A twenty-one day programme that builds the three pillars in a deliberate order
- The three levels of support, and why most parental help is offered at the wrong one
- What to do about siblings, screens, comparison, and the adults outside your house who say fixed things in front of your child
You do not have to be an impressive person for this to work. You have to be an honest one, out loud, where your child can see.
- Author
- Marcus Fenley
- Series
- The Parent Leader Series · Book 1
- Written for
- Parents of children aged 2–12
- Editions
- Paperback · Hardcover · Kindle
- Trim size
- 6 × 9 in
- Publisher
- Tsunami Reading