The Strength Switch

how the new science of strength-based parenting helps your child and your teen flourish

By: Lea Waters

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Paperback | 10 January 2017

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352 Pages

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15.4 x 23.3 x 2.8

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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.

Industry Reviews

'Waters comes off as a thoughtful parenting realist ... [her] clearly presented, easily implemented ideas will make sense to parents looking to escape the corrective mind-set that can make both them and their children feel defective or broken, especially in the children's teen years.'

* Publishers Weekly *

'As parents, we often obsess about fixing our children's weaknesses and neglect the importance of developing their strengths. This book is full of concrete ideas on how to change that.'

-- Adam Grant, PhD, New York Times bestselling author of Originals and Give and Take

'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 bestselling author of Grit

'The Strength Switch gives parents hope that they can build their children's creativity. By sharing parts of her own story of overcoming hardship, and presenting the latest science of positive psychology, Dr. Waters not only inspires parents to bring out the best in their children, but she inspires us all to be the best version of ourselves. A wise and warm book!'

-- Scott Barry Kaufman, co-author of Wired to Create: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Creative Mind

'Lea Waters points to a needed shift in the way we are parenting our children and teenagers. The Strength Switch rejects the current fad that drowns children in self-esteem and replaces it with research-based practices to help parents identify and develop their children's best qualities. Inspiring and timely.'

-- Robert Biswas-Diener, co-author of The Upside of Your Dark Side

'This book will help you do something groundbreaking for your children - shift your view to see their best and help them develop their unique strengths. Follow the wisdom here and you will bring deep, lasting benefit to not only your child but yourself. Thanks to Dr. Lea Waters, strengths-based parenting has arrived!'

-- Ryan M. Niemiec, author of Character Strengths Interventions

'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.'

-- Barbara L. Fredrickson, author of Positivity and Love 2.0

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