How to Raise Successful People: Simple Lessons for Radical Results

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Knyga apie autorės ilgametę mamos, močiutės ir pedagogės patirtį, išmoktas pamokas ir sukurtą ugdymo sistemą (TRICK). Chang is the CEO of WeeCare, a platform that helps caregivers start "curriculum-based home daycares. I confess that I couldn't read the next section on kindness after feeling that she had shared what I felt were many unkind words the pages prior. Her mother, on the other hand, had been consistently warm and loving; the author has tried to replicate this and build an equally close relationship with her own daughters while rejecting the unyielding sexism expressed by her father.

She also points out that many parents raise their children with the idea that their successes are a direct reflection of the parents themselves, and she argues this is completely unrealistic. Unfortunately, during her career as a teacher, the author has seen many parents take a much stronger stance against their children’s life choices, often with detrimental outcomes. I have always been like this and have raised my three daughters like this, who are by the way CEO's and professors". It's about respecting your kids so they can respect themselves, so they can take risks and become independent.Despite that, polls show that people in general are convinced that we live in a more dangerous time than ever. The book is well-organised, covering topics such as the importance of empathy, fostering creativity, and setting achievable goals. Admittedly, I am divorced, but truly don't believe that my decision to pursue love and happiness is modeling for my child "how to live an angry life," as Wojcicki describes it. Woj doesn't cite everything in the book as it's mentioned but there is an appendix and that makes it super easy to read without feeling lost or that you need a child development degree or more.

Just, again, curious that publishers are trying to sell a book based on how she allegedly parented 30 years ago. Esther Wojcicki is a journalist, educator and the mother of two of Silicon Valley’s most successful female entrepreneurs, Susan and Anne Wojcicki. After all, who wouldn’t want to live next door to someone who’s always willing to do you a favor, or who cares about your well-being? Children polled in a Harvard study were found to overwhelmingly report that they considered their own personal happiness and success a priority in life, with only 20% of them reporting that caring for others was their top priority.Letting children be within reason and encouraging them to creatively play and learn as well as be kind were my favorite nuggets from the book. The lesson in all of this: Children will listen to you - they want your approval and love - but if they want to be happy, they're going to have to listen to themselves. Her many anecdotes are effective at helping aspiring parent visualize how they could follow her suggested path. Her perspective is a drastic opposite to the popular ‘helicopter’ style of parenting we see nowadays.

Unfortunately that meant she was subjected to many poor parenting methods, some of which would even be considered abusive. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Wojcicki also completely surpasses the role of genetics; if your father is a physics professor and your mother is also smart, that might be a bigger part of your success than the fact that you were allowed to bike to school alone at an early age.

The very long personal introduction from the author felt unnecessary as did the many personal anecdotes, which is why I dropped my review to 3 stars. If your three daughters are Silicon Valley ceos and a doctor, then you must have done something right.

Beautiful book on installing TRICK (trust, respect, independence, collaboration and kindness) values into human beings.And while her parents clearly weren’t very good, she followed her own advice and took the few good things they did and replicated them. Her father’s example, that of a distant and authoritarian figure, was something that she definitely wanted to avoid. It wasn’t terrible, and I got most of the way through, but the incessant name dropping and self-aggrandizing was too much for me to take.