Every Child Has a Thinking Style: A Guide to Recognizing and Fostering Each Child's Natural Gifts and Preferences-- to Help Them Learn, Thrive, and Achieve [Paperback]

Lanna Nakone (Author), Arlene Taylor (Foreword)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 4, 2006

For home, school, and play-simple, insightful strategies to help each child develop essential life skills.

Everyone has a natural thinking style-a set of preferences that helps with relating to the rest of the world. Using the latest research into how we think and learn, Lanna Nakone has divided children into four groups: penguins (maintainers), dogs (harmonizers), horses (innovators), and lions (prioritizers).

For each type, an organized world is a safe haven. In this fresh, practical, and insightful guide, Lanna Nakone gives parents a new way to understand and encourage children's thinking styles, sensory preferences, gender, and personality tendencies to help them tailor their child's environment to make it a safe, more learning-friendly place. Stories, illustrations, and concrete step-by-step instructions show readers how to give children the support they need to reach their full potential.

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About the Author

Lanna Nakone is a professional organizer and consultant whose pioneering method is based on the latest research in brain types. Her business, Organized World, boasts clients that include busy family households, top corporations, and successful executives. A member of the National Association of Professional Organizers (NAPO), Nakone leads workshops across the country, and is the author of Organizing for Your Brain Type.

Product Details

• Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: Perigee Trade; 1 edition (April 4, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0399532463
• ISBN-13: 978-0399532467
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.4 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #341,290 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very Insightful and Easy to Read, September 11, 2007

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This review is from: Every Child Has a Thinking Style: A Guide to Recognizing and Fostering Each Child's Natural Gifts and Preferences-- to Help Them Learn, Thrive, and Achieve (Paperback)

I found this book extremely insightful and it was easy to spot our thinking styles even with out the test. There were some questions that were hard to answer but no different than any other personality type assesment. I do think this would be hard to use for a parent of a young child. My childern were 4 and 6 when I took the assesments. I made several changes to how my children's rooms were set up based suggestions in the book and I feel that it has made quite a difference. Does that mean that everything is neat and clutter free?? No but when it is time to clean up and put things away, it is much more condusive to their style.

Although it is true that this book does not go very deep into how to make your thinking style work for you or give specific plans for transforming your childs life with this information, that is ok. I have read so many books like that and then felt disappointed because the "step by step" was too much to follow so I did not follow through. This book give examples and leaves you with a basic knowledge to put some idealogical changes into play. The book is a short and entertaining read and worth the money and time.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great info, July 28, 2006

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Kit Taylor (McKinney, TX USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Every Child Has a Thinking Style: A Guide to Recognizing and Fostering Each Child's Natural Gifts and Preferences-- to Help Them Learn, Thrive, and Achieve (Paperback)

I am a Professional Organizer and this is an outstanding book. It really helps you get into the minds of little ones and help them make the most of their own natural abilities.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I learned so much about my family!, September 17, 2007

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RE Lady (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Every Child Has a Thinking Style: A Guide to Recognizing and Fostering Each Child's Natural Gifts and Preferences-- to Help Them Learn, Thrive, and Achieve (Paperback)

I bought this book at a seminar at my child's school that was given by some local organizers who focus on students. I really appreciate this book, because a light bulb went off in my head about myself, my husband and older daughter. I had really been interacting with my husband and daughter in the wrong way. I have begun making changes that would enhance our ways of relating to each other. I haven't figured out my younger daughter because she really seems to be spread across the different groups, but I will form a plan myself that will be specific to her. I highly recommend this book!!!