Bringing Out the Best in Your Child: 80 Ways to Focus on Every Kid's Strengths [Paperback]

Cynthia Ulrich Tobias (Author), Carol Funk (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1997

Learning Styles specialists Cynthia Tobias and Carol Funk encourage parents to identify their children's behavior and look beyond it to see the positive strengths it contains in order to help them suceed by working with their unique learning styles.

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Cynthia Ulrich Tobias and Carol Funk --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 210 pages
• Publisher: Vine Books (February 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1569550166
• ISBN-13: 978-1569550168
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #854,460 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Cynthia Ulrich Tobias is founder and CEO of AppLe St. (Applied Learning Styles) and coordinates education and commerce programs throughout North America and internationally. She is a speaker and the best-selling author of several books including Every Child Can Succeed, Bring out the Best in Your Child, Do You Know What I Like About You? and You Can't Make Me (But I Can be Persuaded). She lives near Seattle, Washington.

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64 of 64 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Maybe the worst in your kid is actually a strength., November 5, 1997

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This review is from: Bringing Out the Best in Your Child: 80 Ways to Focus on Every Kid's Strengths (Paperback)

Cynthia Tobias and Carol Funk have written a great book to help parents affirm and encourage their kids. Even when what the kids do seems very negative, underneath is a strength, a quality that can be nurtured. Stubbornness channeled in the right direction becomes steadfastness. A loud mouth might signal someone who is not afraid to speak up for what he believes. Doing things "my way" could indicate a spirit of independence and adventure. Parents can learn to take the worst traits of their children and turn them into positive strengths and Tobias and Funk will show you how. At the end of each of the 80 sections there is help to recognize the strength, and ways to bring the child to accountability for his actions.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Focus on the positives, February 19, 2010

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This review is from: Bringing Out the Best in Your Child: 80 Ways to Focus on Every Kid's Strengths (Paperback)

For all of those nagging little problems and attitudes that surface with your kids, this book helps you to see things in a new light. You're invited to see how those same qualities that can be frustrating to you, can be channeled into positive directions and encourages you to see the strengths in every child's personality and how to direct those strengths into positive attributes and actions. I wish I had had this book to read when my son was younger. So many useless battles that could have been averted and so many lost attempts to praise. As he is now a new teenager, I am still able to find plenty of good advice, but most of the examples and stories are geared toward younger children. It's never too late though and I have seen several big changes as I have enlarged my vision through reading this book.

5.0 out of 5 stars very helpful in life and class, December 14, 2010

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This review is from: Bringing Out the Best in Your Child: 80 Ways to Focus on Every Kid's Strengths (Paperback)

The information was very helpful to me in my life, my family, and was a nice resource for class papers.

I enjoy this author's style, and writings.