Play to Their Strengths

Brandon Miller

Description

Bring Out the Best in Your Children How can a good parent like you become an even greater parent? By shifting the focus to what's right with your kids instead of what is wrong with them. Discover how you can replace your frustration with joy by taking the pressure of performance and comparison off your children's shoulders. Based in the belief that every child has God-givengreatness within them, Play to Their Strengths shows you how to move with the natural momentum of your kids' talents and make the shift to a collaborative, strengths-based, and motivational approach to parenting.You'll see the powerful results of this shift in your children's shining eyesand your own. The unique Playbook in the back of the book equips you to put into practice the ideas in each chapter. Answer questions and engage in activities with your spouse and kids to uncover talent and discover greatness. The Playbook makes great advice personal as you apply it to the specific family dynamics in your home. Now is the perfect time to experience a fresh fascination with your children and uncover the hidden gem inside each of them.

Informations

• Publié par: Harvest House Publishers
• Date de parution: 04 juin 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780736976183
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

Endorsements
Analyn and Brandon Miller have created one of the best places to start developing a parenting approach based in strengths!
Tom Rath, researcher and author of the New York Times number one bestseller StrengthsFinder 2.0
This book is a powerful and empowering read for any parent who wants to bring out the God-given gifts in their child.
Lea Waters, psychologist and author of The Strength Switch: How the New Science of Strength-Based Parenting Can Help Your Child and Your Teen to Flourish
Play to Their Strengths will help you become a better parent and your child become the best they can be.
Dave Ferguson, pastor and author of Hero Maker: 5 Essential Practices for Leaders to Multiply Leaders
In Play to Their Strengths, Brandon and Analyn Miller lay out a clear and easily adaptable path for seeing each child as a unique individual, ready to give the world the contribution they were brought into this life to give.
Jenifer Fox, author of Your Child s Strengths
Real, practical, and very helpful.
Greg Haswell, pastor and author of Beyond Leadership
This book is a must-read for parents who want to help their children grow their strengths!
Victor Seet, founder of StrengthsSchool and the first Gold Gallup-Certified StrengthsFinder Coach
In this age of parenting the perfect child and the stress that goal brings, this tremendously powerful resource offers a quieter, stronger, more effective approach.
Maureen Electa Monte, author of Destination Unstoppable: The Journey of No Teammate Left Behind
Full of divine wisdom, inspiration, and practical frameworks, this book educates, inspires, and guides you to your best self in parenting.
Taisja Laudy, founder of TL C Global
The Millers have skillfully combined their strong faith, their love of family, and their belief in strengths to create a powerful how-to book for parents who want to bring out the best in their kids and themselves.
Sara Robinson, author of Unstuck at Last: Using Your Strengths to Get What You Want
This book cuts through parenting myths that burden and confuse us and shows practical ways to nurture our children s natural gifts and talents.
Sara Regan, CEO of Strengths Now and author of Strengths Boost: Partnering for Success
The methods and strategies in this amazing book are timely and relevant for any generation and any family.
Rhonda Knight Boyle, coauthor of Turning Talents into Strengths: Stories of Coaching Transformation
While reading Play to Their Strengths , all I could think about was how fast I wanted to give a copy to my son and daughter-in-law as new parents of my first grandchild.
Brent O Bannon, author of Let s Talk Strengths
This book is a game changer!
Nicole Seichter, author of Enjoy: A New Approach to Stress and Burnout Prevention
Every parent who is serious about raising children to be who God made them to be ought to read this book!
Chris Heinz, author of Made to Pray
Read this book, share it with your spouse, celebrate it with your children, and change your family.
Paul Porter, StrengthsFinder consultant and former school superintendent
A practical and inspiring guide for families.
Lisa Cummings, founder of Lead Through Strengths
Play to Their Strengths gives parents a paradigm shift in their thinking, allowing them to see their children the way God intended-as amazing gifts with God-given talents and strengths that make them uniquely special.
Ryan and Jennifer Miller, family and marriage ministry
This book introduces an approach to parenting that is guaranteed to increase the love and reduce the stress and conflict in our homes.
Ryan Darby, PhD
A refreshing and inspiring companion on your parenting journey.
Kathy Kerston, Gallup-Certified StrengthsFinder Coach
Asking your kids, What s strong with you? instead of asking, What s wrong with you? is a huge shift in parenting that the Millers invite parents to consider.
Sandie Haskins, pastor and International Coaching Federation coach
Play to Their Strengths is chock-full of tactical, relatable, and tangible steps that parents in any season of parenting can start implementing immediately for real, sustainable impact on that sacred relationship.
Darren Virassammy, COO and cofounder of 34 Strong, Inc.
A refreshing lens for affirming, honoring, and empowering the best in children.
Adriane Massey, founder and president of Strengths Zone
There is a better way to raise our children! Play to Their Strengths is such a powerful book for all parents, grandparents, and caregivers.
Murray Guest, CEO of Inspire My Business
I loved every single page of this book and experienced more than a handful of powerful mindset-changing moments that have already affected the relationship with my kids.
Peter Baloh, partner and senior consultant of e2grow
Empowers the reader to begin a discovery of who their child was created to be by God.
Beverly Griffeth-Bryant, author and training specialist
A winning playbook for how to become an intentional, strengths-focused parent.
Alicia Santamaria, author and CEO of Adelante Coaching + Consulting
Very useful to give our kids an advantage by helping us parents start our kids young in knowing their strengths!
Irma Dekking, CEO of Strengths Company
Actionable tools here that can help equip any parent s toolbox.
Mary Sue Ingraham, leadership and team consultant
This engaging book provides a comprehensive playbook for positive and measurable results for the whole family.
Johan Oosthuizen, Gallup-Certified StrengthsFinder Coach
What a beautiful work! I especially appreciated the Parents Playbook with everyday, realistic, and (best of all) fun things to do and share with your family!
Nancy Merrick, Gallup-Certified StrengthsFinder Coach
I highly recommend this book. The Millers share how to recognize and foster the gifts and potential of each of our children through strengths-based parenting.
Kathie Gautille, author, Christian faith-based coach
Analyn and Brandon are inviting parents everywhere to help each child find what makes their eyes shine with happiness. I love their journey, the lessons they ve learned, and the tools they share with parents everywhere. Highly recommended!
Paul Allen, CEO of Soar.com
Analyn and Brandon have the courage to be vulnerable and raw and to let us into the darkest parts of their parenting experience. This book will touch parents of all faiths.
Jamie Librot, global strengths movement leader
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Play to Their Strengths
Copyright 2019 by Brandon Miller and Analyn Miller
Published by Harvest House Publishers
Eugene, Oregon 97408
www.harvesthousepublishers.com
ISBN 978-0-7369-7617-6 pbk.
ISBN 978-0-7369-7618-3 eBook
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Miller, Brandon, author. | Miller, Analyn, author.
Title: Play to their strengths / Brandon and Analyn Miller.
Description: Eugene, Oregon: Harvest House Publishers, [2019] | Includes bibliographical references.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018060615 (print) | LCCN 2019002431 (ebook) | ISBN 9780736976183 (ebook) | ISBN 9780736976176 (pbk.)
Subjects: LCSH: Parenting-Religious aspects-Christianity. | Parent and child-Religious aspects-Christianity.
Classification: LCC BV4529 (ebook) | LCC BV4529 .M546 2019 (print) | DDC 248.8/45-dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018060615
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Dedication
To our parents
Thank you for supporting us through our parenting journey
and being continual sources of love and encouragement. It
truly takes a community to raise children, and you have stood
in the place of caregivers, truth bringers, and family builders.
We hope this book honors the legacy you have established.
Acknowledgments
To our children-thank you all for allowing us to love you, learn with you, and lead you. This book is your story, and the story goes on.
To the wonderful people at Harvest House-thank you for walking with us through this process. Your team has been amazing to work with!
To the teams at 34 Strong and Analyn Miller Group-thank you for your unwavering support and the continual encouragement you were to us as we made time to complete this work.
To our dear friend Jennifer-thank you for your part in helping us launch this project. We appreciate you.
To Ryan and Jen-thank you for the hours you spent with us helping to craft the Playbook. We love you both and appreciate you for lending us your experience and expertise.
To the legacy of Dr. Donald O. Clifton-we stand on the shoulders of his w