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Your Child's Strengths: Discover Them, Develop Them, Use Them (Viking, 2008)
By Jenifer Fox, M. Ed.

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With this groundbreaking work, 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 people feel engaged and energized.
  • Relationship Strengths -The things people do for and with others that make them feel valued and competent.
  • Learning Strengths - The unique way people approach and understand new information.
Pairing inspiring first hand accounts of success with practical workbook tools and an outline of the award-winning Affinities Program Fox implemented at her 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.