Unlock your child's potential by helping them build their strengths.
As a strengths-based scientist for more than 20 years, Dr Lea Waters has witnessed first-hand how focusing on our children's strengths, rather than correcting their weaknesses, can help build resilience and optimism, and offer protection from depression and anxiety.
In this game-changing book, she argues that by throwing the 'strength switch' parents can encourage creativity, develop their children's self-esteem and energy, and enhance achievement - and she offers easy-to-follow steps to teach parents how.
With specific tips for interacting with your kids and your teens, The Strength Switch offers all the tools parents need to discover talents in their children, use positive emotions as a resource, build strong brains, and deal with problem behaviours and difficult emotions. This essential book will show parents how a small shift can yield enormous results.
Unlock your children's potential by helping them build their strengths.
This game-changing book shows us the extraordinary results of focusing on our children's strengths rather than correcting their weaknesses. Most parents struggle with this shift because they suffer from a negativity bias. By showing us how to throw the 'strength switch', Lea Waters demonstrates how we can help our children build resilience, optimism, and achievement, and protect them from depression and anxiety.
As a strengths-based scientist for more than twenty years, Waters has seen how this approach enhances self-esteem and energy in children and teenagers, and how exciting and rewarding it can be for parents. With tips for specific ways to interact with your kids, Waters demonstrates how to discover talents in our children, how to use positive emotions as a resource, how to build strong brains, and how to deal with problem behaviours and difficult emotions. The Strength Switch will show parents how a small shift can yield enormous results.
'Lea Waters' expertise, hope, and heart shine through the pages of The Strength Switch. She deftly draws on the science of positive emotions to help readers appreciate the vital role positivity plays in moving through hard times. This book will be a game-changer for unlocking your child's potential.'
