• The Strength Switch

  • How the New Science of Strength-Based Parenting Helps Your Child and Teen to Flourish
  • By: Lea Waters
  • Narrated by: Olivia Mackenzie-Smith
  • Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins

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The Strength Switch

By: Lea Waters
Narrated by: Olivia Mackenzie-Smith
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Publisher's summary

This game-changing book reveals the extraordinary results of focusing on our children's strengths rather than always trying to correct their weaknesses. By showing us how to throw the 'strength switch', Dr Lea Waters demonstrates how we can help our children build resilience, optimism and achievement.

As a strength-based scientist for more than 20 years, Waters has seen how this approach enhances self-esteem and energy in both children and teenagers - and how parents find it an exciting and rewarding way to raise them. With many suggestions for specific techniques to interact with your children, Waters demonstrates how to discover their strengths and talents, use positive emotions as a resource, build strong brains and even how to deal with problem behaviour and talk about difficult situations and emotions. The Strength Switch will show parents that a small shift can yield enormous results.

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©2020 Lea Waters (P)2020 Penguin Random House Australia

Critic reviews

"Practical tips for parents from the wise and wonderful Lea Waters! So many parents, including me, struggle to translate scientific research into real-world strategies. This terrific book not only helps us understand ourselves and our children better but also makes that understanding actionable!" (Angela Duckworth, PhD, New York Times best-selling author of Grit)

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