Your Child's Strengths: Discover Them, Develop Them, Use Them Book

Foreword     ix
Preface     xiii
Introduction     1
The Weakness Habit     5
The Face of Weakness     7
Standardization and the Weakening of the Individual     29
The High Cost of a Brand-Name College     37
Learning Disabilities for Dummies     46
The Myth of Adolescent Rebellion     60
A Strengths Awakening     69
Your Three Types of Strengths     74
Setting the Stage for Discovery and Development     96
Strengths are for Younger Kids, Too     119
Barriers and Bridges: Making the Strengths Life Possible     138
This Approach is for Life     154
Create Your Future, Play to Your Strengths Workbook     161
How it Works     171
Activity Strengths     178
Relationship Strengths     196
Learning Strengths     217
Looking to the Future     232
Is This the Answer to Our Future?     236
Acknowledgments     238
Appendixes
My Strengths Inventory: Hat, Vest, Shoes     243
The Affinities Program     259
Resources     328
Index     335