Mind in the Making: The Seven Essential Life Skills Every Child Needs Paperback - 2010 - 1st Edition
by Ellen Galinsky
Early childhood development researcher Galinsky presents the seven skills she believes all children should learn, showing parents not only what children are capable of, but specifically how to develop those capabilities in their children.
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"What kind of person do I want my child to be?"
There are hundreds of books that give parents advice on everything from weaning to toilet training, from discipline to nutrition. But in spite of this overwhelming amount of information, there is very little research-based advice for parents on how to raise their children to be well rounded and achieve their full potential, helping them learn to take on life's challenges, communicate well with others, and remain committed to learning. These are the "essential life skills" that Ellen Galinsky has spent her career pursuing, through her own studies and through decades of talking with more than a hundred of the most outstanding researchers in child development and neuroscience. The good news is that there are simple everyday things that all parents can do to build these skills in their children for today and for the future. They don't cost money, and it's never too late to begin.
In Mind in the Making, Ellen Galinsky has grouped this research into seven critical areas that children need most: (1) focus and self control; (2) perspective taking; (3) communicating; (4) making connections; (5) critical thinking; (6) taking on challenges; and (7) self-directed, engaged learning. For each of these skills, Galinsky shows parents what the studies have proven, and she provides numerous concrete things that parents can do--starting today--to strengthen these skills in their children. These aren't the kinds of skills that children just pick up; these skills have to be fostered. They are the skills that give children the ability to focus on their goals so that they can learn more easily and communicate what they've learned. These are the skills that prepare children for the pressures of modern life, skills that they will draw on now and for years to come.
Mind in the Making is a truly groundbreaking book, one that teaches parents how to give children the most important tools they will need. Already acclaimed by such thought leaders as T. Berry Brazelton, M.D., David A. Hamburg, M.D., Adele Faber, and Judy Woodruff, Mind in the Making is destined to become a classic in the literature of parenting.
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- Title Mind in the Making: The Seven Essential Life Skills Every Child Needs
- Author Ellen Galinsky
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 400
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Mariner Books, Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
- Date 2010-04-20
- ISBN 9780061732324 / 006173232X
- Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
- Dimensions 8.8 x 6 x 1.3 in (22.35 x 15.24 x 3.30 cm)
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Themes
- Topical: Family
- Library of Congress subjects Child development, Children
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009051549
- Dewey Decimal Code 305.231
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- Publishers Weekly, 03/01/2010, Page 47
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