Strengths Based Parenting

Developing Your Children's Innate Talents

By: Mary Reckmeyer Ph.D., Jennifer Robison

Narrated by: Teri Clark Linden

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 Parenting addresses these and other questions on parents' minds. But unlike many parenting books, Strengths Based Parenting focuses 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 your own innate talents and effectively apply them to your individual parenting style.

You'll find stories, examples and practical advice as well as a strengths assessment access code for parents and one for kids, so you can take the first step to discovering your innate talents and those of your children.

Grounded in decades of Gallup research on strengths psychology - as highlighted in Gallup's StrengthsFinder 2.0, which has sold nearly 5 million copies to date - Strengths Based Parenting shows you how to uncover your kids' top talents and your own. The strengths journey is one that the whole family embarks on together, and Strengths Based Parenting will guide you and your children to more fulfilling, productive and happy lives.

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Good concept, flawed execution

Like/agree with strengths-based approach in general, but the parent assessment is uselessly high level, the examples are mostly toxic, the audiobook's chapters are not labeled and don't correspond to the book's chapters, and some of the audio book's chapter names aren't spoken by the narrator while others are so the audio book is harder to follow. The book also heavily promotes the useless assessments. More of than half of the book is just a summary of each superficial "talent theme" as well as some (also) superficial guidance on how to apply them. ("As an Eater, you have a talent for eating. Try to eat foods you like but also try new foods that you might also learn to like." Super insightful.)