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Life Lens: Seeing Your Children in Color
In Life Seeing Your Children in Color, author and celebrated Suzuki music instructor Michele Monahan Horner breaks down a child's interior landscape into seven different colors. Far from typecasting, the foundation of the Life Lens method focuses on a respectful recognition of each individual's hardwired differences and learning how to meet others where they are most ready to learn. Who will benefit from the Life Lens model?
- Parents
- Educators
- Social Workers
- Guidance Counselors
- Human Resources Professionals
- Coaches
- Business Owners
- YOU! Life Lens principles apply universally across all ages, classroom groups, and with non-musicians. By using Life Lens, you will be able to home in on the most effective strategies to communicate with and help your students learn. Parents will learn how to eliminate hidden relationship stressors so that practice or homework time will be happier and more productive. After reading Life Lens, you will never see the world in black and white again.
- Parents
- Educators
- Social Workers
- Guidance Counselors
- Human Resources Professionals
- Coaches
- Business Owners
- YOU! Life Lens principles apply universally across all ages, classroom groups, and with non-musicians. By using Life Lens, you will be able to home in on the most effective strategies to communicate with and help your students learn. Parents will learn how to eliminate hidden relationship stressors so that practice or homework time will be happier and more productive. After reading Life Lens, you will never see the world in black and white again.
182 pages, Paperback
Published July 12, 2016
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July 8, 2023
3.5 stars
I found this book fascinating, and it definitely has some useful advice. But I also don't think everyone necessarily fits neatly into just one color. For example, one of my kids is RED(ish). They are very imaginative, driven, can be quite defensive, always take leadership roles when in groups, starts a task and sometimes gets tunnel vision, has a strong sense of right and wrong, and are competitive. However, they are very empathetic, care deeply about how others see them, and are competitive but actively avoid competition because competition makes them frustrated and they don't like feeling that way. So they prefer cooperative games. If I use a competitive game to motivate them, it doesn't always go well. They are passionate, but not a high risk taker. They are creative and inventive, but hate having a lot of pressure put on them. According to this book, a RED person would always have all those qualities, but they don't. I did, however, find the suggestion of using a nonjudgmental prop while they are getting defensive during instrument practice or anything else to be magically helpful. It just really works for them.
So while I definitely found this book super interesting; it helped us see ourselves in a slightly new way and to be more patient and understanding with one another, I still think there is work to be done with the color categories. Like the combination of the 9 traits aren't always the same. Colors, like people, come in gradients. Also, the flow chart on page 136 is a little wonky...there is one spot where if you answer "no" you reach a dead end with no color.
We are a family of INDIGOish, ORANGE, REDish, and GREEN...what color are you?
I found this book fascinating, and it definitely has some useful advice. But I also don't think everyone necessarily fits neatly into just one color. For example, one of my kids is RED(ish). They are very imaginative, driven, can be quite defensive, always take leadership roles when in groups, starts a task and sometimes gets tunnel vision, has a strong sense of right and wrong, and are competitive. However, they are very empathetic, care deeply about how others see them, and are competitive but actively avoid competition because competition makes them frustrated and they don't like feeling that way. So they prefer cooperative games. If I use a competitive game to motivate them, it doesn't always go well. They are passionate, but not a high risk taker. They are creative and inventive, but hate having a lot of pressure put on them. According to this book, a RED person would always have all those qualities, but they don't. I did, however, find the suggestion of using a nonjudgmental prop while they are getting defensive during instrument practice or anything else to be magically helpful. It just really works for them.
So while I definitely found this book super interesting; it helped us see ourselves in a slightly new way and to be more patient and understanding with one another, I still think there is work to be done with the color categories. Like the combination of the 9 traits aren't always the same. Colors, like people, come in gradients. Also, the flow chart on page 136 is a little wonky...there is one spot where if you answer "no" you reach a dead end with no color.
We are a family of INDIGOish, ORANGE, REDish, and GREEN...what color are you?
October 9, 2019
This is an eye-opening book for anyone who teaches children. The book addresses different learning styles which work best with certain types of personalities which the author has categorized by the colors of the rainbow. Wide variety of applications-you’ll find yourself color typing everyone you know!
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