Grit for Kids: 16 Top Steps for Developing Grit, Passion, Willpower, and Perseverance in Kids for Self-Confidence and a Successful Life

Motivating Children...Perseverance, Setting Goals, Power

By: Lee David Daniels

Narrated by: Bill Buwalda

Length: 1 hr and 40 mins

Publisher's summary

Teach your kids to develop grit, that combination of passion, purpose, and perseverance that has been identified as a key to success!

Second edition: Contains new chapters explaining grit, why you should develop it, questions to ask your kids, additional resources, and much more....

“Our potential is one thing. What we do with it is quite another.” (Angela Duckworth, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance)

Everyone has heard of grit. It’s that unique combination of passion and perseverance that has been identified as a key to success. But while much has been written on how to develop these attributes for adults, there hasn’t been much practical advice on how to develop grit in children.

Your kids are the most important people in your lives. In this increasingly competitive and confusing world they need you to help them be their best. They need you to guide them in developing traits for success and happiness.

Grit for Kids will teach you how to help your child to develop their own grit in just 16 easy-to-follow chapters. Each one contains real stories of real kids facing common situations, proven steps to take in these situations, and the outcomes after the steps were taken.

Your son or daughter will confidently be able to:

• Develop - discover what they’re really interested in pursuing; belief in their skills; ability to overcome negativity; desire to learn more about everything; ability to bounce back after a setback; capability to defend their beliefs and opinions.
• Manage - ability to recognize and control emotional outbursts; recognize small vs. big problems and keep them in perspective; recognize their unique strengths and weaknesses; be appreciative of differences in people; learn to right the wrongs they may have caused to others.
• Plan - define goals related to their passion; break the goals into small achievable tasks; follow the process of completing tasks; set milestones for achieving a goal; celebrate when a milestone is reached; apply lessons learned from a setback; persevere in achieving goals.
• Grow - achieve conviction in their beliefs; learn to apply ethical and moral behavior; cultivate a desire for a deeper understanding of issues; acquire healthy habits for their body and mind.

What you will be able to do:

• Inspire your kids to discover what they’re passionate about
• Teach methods to manage their emotions
• Show how to downplay negativity and increase optimism
• Explain steps to teach respect for themselves and others
• Impart ways to help them develop goals consistent with their passions
• Demonstrate methods for planning to achieve their goals
• Explain how to teach them to stay the course
• Prepare them for setbacks or negative outcomes
• Teach how to learn from their mistakes and apply these lessons
• Reveal techniques to improve their decision making
• Apply methods to keep them at optimal health
• Model yourself as an example in perseverance and resilience

©2020 Lee D. Grinberg (P)2020 Lee D. Grinberg

Inspirational book

This book was very well written and voice work was very inspiring. This was a great read.

Great questions for kids to make goals!

The suggested questions for kids was a great touch! I wish there was an attached pdf for reference. This has some good insight and suggestions!

Formula

I had to slow down the speed to follow. I loved the intro phase and examples cited. I would have liked for the author to go more in depth of the process.
what if the child is monosyllabic? Repeatedly show you care and are willing to listen until the magical door opens? Send him to a therapist for a year of
silent ambush? That was my case. Perhaps I would have garnered a better understanding in kindle form.
I will give it a try. This time it is for my grandchildren.

Inspirational

The author covers a wide range of topics and tools that cover step by step approaches for building strong independent human beings. His book is an exceptional insight for building strong relationships with your child and also helps cultivate better parenting skills to help your child succeed in life. Daniels creatively makes the book entertaining and easy to process all at once with approaching each chapter brilliantly.

Platitudes with 80s movies anecdotes

There are concrete recommendations, but it's unbearable in its naive anecdotal simplicity. I returned it.

Deeper approach missing

It is a tipical 3 or 33 steps book. Lots of WHATs, very few HOWs. The book provides barely mechanical tools to a much complex problem. Our kids (and our relationships with them) are so much more then robots or cars that have to be fixed.

Aweful

The worst book I’ve ever listened to. This person should not have been allowed to publish. Negative stars.

Seemed to be “grit for the privileged”

These kids have money and a lot of options - if you have money and can basically afford any activity for your kids, this book is aimed at you.