Your Child’s Strengths

• Record observations of preferences, quirks and choices
• Stimulate imagination through creative play
• Create rich memories with tradition and ritual
• Model positive attitudes and positive approaches to life

This journey of discovering my children’s strengths with them is one that I delight in. I mean, think about it… I am with my children, all of every day, observing them, playing with them, creating memories and being a role model to them. It only makes sense that I help guide them towards that which they enjoy.

Your Child’s Strengths was written to help guide parents and teachers to help kids implement the strengths they reveal. Ms. Fox dives in to explain how the current educations system fosters many weaknesses that make learning very difficult for children and how parents and teachers can steer clear. Fortunately, as a homeschooler, I have somewhat of an advantage over other parents in that I have total control over my children’s leaning environment. I am able to easily avoid many of the pitfalls that foster the weaknesses that Ms. Fox mentions in this enlightening and educational book, and instead, foster each of their strengths… Which is very different in each of my six children, let me tell ya!

You know, until I read Your Child’s Strengths I thought I had a pretty good grasp of my own strengths. Ms. Fox has opened my eyes to new ways in which I can find my strengths in all three areas, and use them. Using the Workbook and Strengths Inventory I have begun the process of finding out exactly what hats, vests and shoes I want to wear on any given day. What a fun way to go about my day… Dressing myself and my children in that which makes us look and feel the best!

For all you teachers, both of your own children and others, I would totally recommend that you get your hands on Ms. Fox’s book. You can also check out the wonderful tools available to you at strengthsmovement.com. (The Tip Sheet is super helpful!)

Thanks to The Parent Bloggers Network for the opportunity to read such an inspiring book! Head over and find more reviews on Ms. Fox’s book… Who knows, you just may be able to win a copy of your own!

Book Description

An essential book for parents and teachers that explores how children’s individual strengths create success

With this groundbreaking work, educator Jenifer Fox is poised to change the conversation about education in this country. For too long, parents and teachers have focused on identifying and “fixing” kids’ weaknesses to improve academic performance. Passionately written and informed by Fox’s twenty-five years of experience, Your Child’s Strengths turns that flawed paradigm on its head. Fox’s strengths-based philosophy provides the tools to prepare kids for the future in a world that demands greater adaptability and creative thinking than ever before.

Your Child’s Strengths will give parents and teachers the tools to discover strengths in three main areas: Activity Strengths, the tasks that make you feel engaged and energized; Relationship Strengths, the things you do for and with others that make you feel valued and competent; and Learning Strengths, the unique ways we approach and understand new information. All three strengths work in tandem.

Pairing inspiring firsthand accounts of success with practical workbook tools and an outline of the award- winning Affinities Program Fox has implemented at her own school, this much- needed book is a user- friendly guide for parents, teachers, and administrators that will improve individual performance and an indispensable road map for young people and society to a future that plays to strengths.

About the Author

Jenifer Fox has worked in day and boarding schools, single sex and coed schools, as a teacher and administrator for twenty-five years. She is currently head of the Purnell School in Pottersville, New Jersey. She holds a BS in communications from the University of Wisconsin– Madison, an MA in English from Middlebury College, and an MEd in school administration from Harvard University. She lives with her husband in Pottersville, New Jersey.