Career Coaching Your Kids, Second Edition: Guiding Your Child Through the Process of Career Discovery (Paperback)

by David H. Montross (Author)

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Believe it or not, children need, appreciate, and even seek career guidance from their parents. But often parents find it difficult to gauge the right level of involvement. CAREER COACHING YOUR KIDS gives parents the help they need. Completely updated and revised in this new edition, it emphasizes the value of parental support and, more important, shows parents how to help rather than hinder their children's process of career discovery.

Drawing on their collective experience in various types of career counseling and their continued research, the authors clearly describe the lifelong process of career decision making. They identify the different roles parents can play at each stage and the appropriate steps to take as children progress and grow into adulthood.

Matching key events in the development of children, adolescents, and young adults with the parental tasks necessary to guide but not dictate career choice, CAREER COACHING YOUR KIDS provides hands-on tools and tips, along with vivid examples and stories, aimed at helping children explore career options. New in this edition: a new preface, an additional new chapter, an expanded Parent Tool Kit, and, for the first time, exercises for kids by age group.

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Parents exert enormous influence over their children's career choices, as both role models and advisors. But navigating the fine line between guiding and dictating those choices can be difficult, and parents can easily fall into the trap of too little or too much involvement.

CAREER COACHING YOUR KIDS, completely revised and updated in this second edition, gives parents the help they need. Drawing on their collective experience in college-level counseling, career counseling in major corporations, and community service work with high school students and their parents, the authors describe in detail the lifelong process of career decision making. They identify the different roles parents can play at each stage and the most appropriate steps to take as children progress and grow into adulthood.

Matching key events in the development of children, adolescents, and young adults with the parental tasks necessary to guide career choice, CAREER COACHING YOUR KIDS provides hands-on tools and tips, along with vivid examples and stories, aimed at helping children explore career options.

This new edition, based on the authors' continued research, offers a new preface, updated text, and an expanded Parent Tool Kit, and also includes exercises for children to complete--a feature requested by parents themselves.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 280 pages
• Publisher: Intercultural Press; 2 edition (April 25, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0891061827
• ISBN-13: 978-0891061823
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.9 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #812,629 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Comprehensive Guide to a World of Possibilities!, June 24, 1997

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This review is from: Career Coaching Your Kids: Guiding Your Child Through the Process of Career Discovery (Paperback)

This book is an excellent guide for parents who want to be able to provide their children with appropriate opportunities to focus their talents and interests into a life path. The book includes many exercises and stories of individuals and goal-setting guidelines, as well as lists of questions to ask your children to help them identify what it is they would like to do when they grow up, a question many of us still ask ourselves well into our careers. In a world of bewildering choices, this book gives parents a chance to help their children (and themselves!) find an anchor that will enrich and bring meaning to their lives. I highly recommend it--you'll refer to this book time and again