The Engaging Child: Raising Children to Speak, Write, and Have Relationship Skills Beyond Technology
Book Details
Author(s)
Maribeth Kuzmeski, Lizzie Kuzmeski
Publisher
Red Zone Publishing
ISBN / ASIN
0971778035
ISBN-13
9780971778030
Availability
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Sales Rank
#459,272
Marketplace
United States 🇺🇸
Description
Your Kids Have Their Facebook Skills Down Pat. But It's Their Face-to-Face Skills That Will Matter Most in the Future.
Email. Texting. Social media. These tools are changing the way an entire generation interacts. They encourage faceless, fragmented communication and shallow relationships. And yet, increasingly, our global economy rewards only those who can engage, connect, persuade, and hold crucial conversations - the antithesis of what kids practice every day.
Of course, technology is here to stay (and in many ways that s a good thing). But it doesn't have to shape how your kids experience their most critical relationships. As a parent, you can foster the critical connecting skills that so often get neglected in the Internet Age. In this thought-provoking book, Maribeth Kuzmeski explains how you can help them:
- Develop the empathy they'll need to become true connectors - Master the lost art of curious listening - Cultivate critical leadership and problem-solving skills - Write clearly and persuasively - Speak to individuals and groups with confidence - Use day-to-day events from ordering meals to making appointments to selling school fundraising items as opportunities to practice connecting
Plus, Maribeth's teenage daughter, Lizzie, contributes several chapters aimed at helping kids communicate with their parents and form stronger bonds with peers and adults.
The Engaging Child helps you give the people you love the the most the skills they'll need the most - those that will help them grow into happy, confident, successful adults.
Email. Texting. Social media. These tools are changing the way an entire generation interacts. They encourage faceless, fragmented communication and shallow relationships. And yet, increasingly, our global economy rewards only those who can engage, connect, persuade, and hold crucial conversations - the antithesis of what kids practice every day.
Of course, technology is here to stay (and in many ways that s a good thing). But it doesn't have to shape how your kids experience their most critical relationships. As a parent, you can foster the critical connecting skills that so often get neglected in the Internet Age. In this thought-provoking book, Maribeth Kuzmeski explains how you can help them:
- Develop the empathy they'll need to become true connectors - Master the lost art of curious listening - Cultivate critical leadership and problem-solving skills - Write clearly and persuasively - Speak to individuals and groups with confidence - Use day-to-day events from ordering meals to making appointments to selling school fundraising items as opportunities to practice connecting
Plus, Maribeth's teenage daughter, Lizzie, contributes several chapters aimed at helping kids communicate with their parents and form stronger bonds with peers and adults.
The Engaging Child helps you give the people you love the the most the skills they'll need the most - those that will help them grow into happy, confident, successful adults.
