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We all want our children to reach their fullest potential - to be smart and well adjusted, and to make a difference in the world. We wonder why, for some people, success seems to come so naturally.
Could the secret be how they were parented?
This book unveils how parenting helped shape some of the most fascinating people you will ever encounter, by doing things that almost any parent can do. You don't have to be wealthy or influential to ensure your child reaches their greatest potential. What you do need is commitment - and the strategies outlined in this book.
In The Formula Unlocking the Secrets to Raising Highly Successful Children, Harvard economist Ronald Ferguson, named in a New York Times profile as the foremost expert on the US educational "achievement gap," along with award-winning journalist Tatsha Robertson, reveal an intriguing blueprint for helping children from all types of backgrounds become successful adults.
Informed by hundreds of interviews, the book includes never-before-published insights from the "How I was Parented Project" at Harvard University, which draws on the varying life experiences of 120 Harvard students. Ferguson and Robertson have isolated a pattern with eight roles of the "Master Parent" that make up the Formula the Early Learning Partner, the Flight Engineer, the Fixer, the Revealer, the Philosopher, the Model, the Negotiator, and the GPS Navigational Voice.
The Formula combines the latest scientific research on child development, learning, and brain growth and illustrates with life stories of extraordinary individuals - from the Harvard-educated Ghanian entrepreneur who, as the young child of a rural doctor, was welcomed in his father's secretive late-night political meetings; to the nation's youngest state-wide elected official, whose hardworking father taught him math and science during grueling days on the family farm in Kentucky; to the DREAMer immigration lawyer whose low-wage mother pawned her wedding ring to buy her academically outstanding child a special flute.
The Formula reveals strategies on how you - regardless of race, class, or background - can help your children become the best they can be and shows ways to maximize their chances for happy and purposeful lives.
Read Online The Formula Unlocking the Secrets to Raising Highly Successful Children Audible Audio Edition Ronald F Ferguson Tatsha Robertson Cynthia Farrell Brilliance Audio Books
"Great book on parenting. It emphasizes the importance of providing your children with a sense of purpose and agency from a very young age. The book covers successful mindsets, such as growth, resilience, grit, mastery orientation and sense of duty, to name a few. The bulk of the book centers on the formula, eight parenting rules with a positive impact on kids. The advice is sound and insightful based on studies and anecdotal evidence. However, not all kids are “typical†and not everyone’s drives are the same, so I would have liked to have seen a bit more on self-realization as it relates to well-being and life satisfaction, rather than such a heavy emphasis on success. Having said that, I do think this is one of the top parenting books I have read."
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The Formula Unlocking the Secrets to Raising Highly Successful Children Audible Audio Edition Ronald F Ferguson Tatsha Robertson Cynthia Farrell Brilliance Audio Books Reviews
- So there are some useful things in this book. The "Eight Roles of Parenting" framework is a really clean way of looking at the messy reality of parenting. However, there's a lot of very problematic parts of this book.
First off, their definition of "Master Parent" is someone with one child who attended Harvard. To begin with, this kind of rubbed me the wrong way. Harvard has always struck me as the Louis Vitton bag of bachelor's degrees. It gets the job done at five times the price for a little bit of branding. But yes, you do have to be academically focused to get in so I went with it.
However, I then got to the chapter on siblings. Look, I understand that kids have their own personalities and it's not necessarily a failing of the parents that a kid grows up to get involved with drugs or gets someone pregnant/gets pregnant as a teen or goes to prison. However--this is the majority of the "Master Parents" featured in this book. They have one child that got into Harvard and one or more children that made terrible choices.
I have two children and if I had to choose between one of them becoming a billionaire philanthropist and one of them dying of alcohol poisoning in his thirties or both of them being average, generally happy people--I would definitely go with both of them being average.
That is not to say that the "eight roles" of high-achieving are wrong. They are just incomplete. This book is missing whatever number of roles it takes to foster general morality and value it above academic success.
I think if the authors could have seen past the shininess of the Harvard name, I'm sure they could have found much more masterful parents. Parents who raised multiple morally outstanding children-- empathetic, civically minded, committed to learning, and use their various talents and sharpen their skills whatever those talents and skills may be.
Those would have been the parents that I would like to model my parenting on. - The book is written with great stories of how families confined to move forward making life a learning process and fun. A great place to reference for new parents.
- This is a fascinating study...the result of 15 years of research. The findings validate what some parents instinctively know. There are things you can do to give your child a strong foundation regardless of family income, race, or socio-economic circumstances. These are universal truths. Reading together from a young age, for example. So many helpful insights. This is an important and ground-breaking book.
- I wish I had this booking while raising my own children. I would recommend anyone raising children today to memorize the formula for raising children with smarts, agency and purpose. Although many parents feel they have the proper intuition, this book gives you the strategic reasoning necessary for raising successful children.
- A great resource for parents! I've read it and highly recommend it! Simple, highly effective things you can do which help your children reach their full potential. You don't need to spend money on gadgets, tutors, etc.
- Great book on parenting. It emphasizes the importance of providing your children with a sense of purpose and agency from a very young age. The book covers successful mindsets, such as growth, resilience, grit, mastery orientation and sense of duty, to name a few. The bulk of the book centers on the formula, eight parenting rules with a positive impact on kids. The advice is sound and insightful based on studies and anecdotal evidence. However, not all kids are “typical†and not everyone’s drives are the same, so I would have liked to have seen a bit more on self-realization as it relates to well-being and life satisfaction, rather than such a heavy emphasis on success. Having said that, I do think this is one of the top parenting books I have read.
- I saw the comment from Plesiosaur before I read the book, but then I read the book anyway, and I’m so glad I did. I’m not sure what the point about Harvard students is all about; some families in the book had kids who went to school there, and others didn’t. And where did the idea that the MAJORITY of kids got into trouble and “made terrible choices†come from? That’s not at all true! It seems to me that the book focuses on helping parents raise kids who are “empathetic, civically minded, committed to learning†but also very high achieving – and this is exactly the kind of guidance parents want. My kids are almost grown, but I found a lot of value in this book to share with friends just starting to raise their kids, and eventually with my own kids when they become parents. I highly recommend reading this book. It will make you a better parent (or grandparent), and It’s also really well written -- just a pleasure to read.
