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Author Waters, Lea, author

Title The strength switch : how the new science of strength-based parenting can help your child and your teen to flourish / Lea Waters, PhD
Published New York : Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House, [2017]

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Description 340 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Standing for strength in a world obsessed with weakness -- The strength switch -- Understanding strengths -- The ages and stages of strength growth -- Attention, savoring, gratitude, and goofing off -- Mindfulness -- Self-control -- Communication -- Strength-based living in the real world -- Strong selves, strong families, strong communities, strong world
Summary The strength switch explains how making small shifts in one's parenting style can yield big results by uncovering a child's strengths, rather than focusing on his or her weaknesses.--Adapted from book jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-306) and index
Subject Parenting.
Parent and child.
LC no. 2016054068
ISBN 9781101983645 (hardcover)
1101983647 (hardcover)