Flying Lessons: 122 Strategies To Equip Your Child to Soar Into Life With Confidence and Competence

by Gregg M. Steinberg

Flying Lessons shows parents how to enhance their child's mental game using targeted activities, which were developed over 15 years of working with children. These exercises teach values such as setting and achieving goals, team building, fair play, and personal responsibility.

192 pages, Paperback

First published July 31, 2007

About the author

Dr. Gregg Steinberg is a professor of human performance at Austin Peay State University, near Nashville TN. Golf Digest ranked him as one of world’s greatest sports psychologist. Dr. Steinberg has worked with many PGA and LPGA players including rookie of the year Brandt Snedeker, Chris Couch and Brian Gay and he was the sports psychologist for the NCAA champion Florida Gator golf team. He is the author of 4 books. His latest book is Fall UP! Turn adversity into your superpower. He has also written the Washington Post bestseller Full Throttle, which illustrates performance psychology principles applied to business: Flying Lessons, which illustrates how to build mental and emotional toughness in children and Mentalrules for golf, which is a golf psychology book. His work has appeared in the NY Times, USA Today, and the Wall Street Journal. He has appeared on numerous Television shows including Dancing with the Stars to discuss mental toughness and was the sport psychology expert for Fox News during the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Reviews

[Bea Elwood · Rating 2 out of 5]

I want to equip my students to "soar into life with competence and confidence" but like a lot of gimmicky books written on the topic of parenting (I'm thinking of my recent attempt to read Parking Lot Rules) this book rarely scratches the surface and spends most of its time talking about sports. Yes, sports. Which actually wasn't so bad because there are a lot of good examples and role models for kids to think about and try to imitate but if you were a parent (or teacher like me) hoping for something more practical you could do tomorrow this book is yet another let down in the cannon of parenting books.

[Diana Nagy · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the better books I’ve read out there this book has some fantastic tips for raising your child’s confidence and general sense of self esteem and well being. I recommend this to all parents seeking a more confident happy and respectful son or daughter at any age.

[John McPhee · Rating 3 out of 5]

so many great ideas ... so few children ...!