Raising Children With Grit: Parenting Passionate, Persistent, and Successful Kids

by Laila Y Sanguras

Grit, the combination of passion and perseverance, has more of an influence on success than cognitive ability, and parents want nothing more than to raise happy, successful children. Raising Children With Grit: Parenting Passionate, Persistent, and Successful Kids provides the strategies that parents need to teach, motivate, and inspire children to pursue their passions with grit—and succeed. By focusing on self-discipline, parenting strategies, and personality traits, parents can cultivate perseverance in their children. By coupling that with an emphasis on curiosity and interest-building activities, parents can help their children define their passions. Additionally, this book offers tips for parents about working with school personnel, how to model grit in their own lives, and how social factors can influence the development of grit.

150 pages, Paperback

Published September 1, 2018

Reviews

[Rachel · Rating 5 out of 5]

Raising kids can, and IS hard work! It doesn’t matter the age, or whose family they are born into, all kids are their own individuals who need encouragement and motivation to help them to succeed in life. Laila Y. Sanguras has found a modern way of displaying the findings from studies performed about parents’ and children’s lives. With chapters about the Erik Erikson’s Psychosocial Development stages of individuals and understanding your child’s personality, we learn how to instill grit into our child’s life. Grit is the combination of perseverance and passion, a main topic in the book, which is necessary for children to develop and be successful in the present and future. Although the majority of the book talks about the child, it also helps the parent reading to figure out their personal parenting style and see if/how there is room for improvement.
Being a parent of two younger children, I found this book to be very well written and well worth the time to read, especially since it is able to replace the older generational parent-help books with more up-to-date lingo and a fun playlist at the end of each chapter.

[Sarah Smith · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a book from Early Reviewers. It grabbed me right from the intro. “Grit is the combination of passion and perseverance.†That is an amazing definition and exactly what I want to give my children's.†She goes on further to talk about studies and grit and how grit can effect our children success more than anything. â€That means that grit, a construct we can help our kids develop, has a greater impact on success than a fairly stable characteristic like IQ.†Wow, just wow. Then I really knew I was going to find common ground with her because of this: “If you love the notion recognizing faux achievements, then we should probably (respectfully) part ways because we are fundamentally so different that you will hat me by the end of the book.†I fundamentally agree with her.
I am a fairly even mix between Authoritative (39%) and Authoritarian (35%) and I would say that is correct. I try to be firm and “The Parent†but to allow for the ability to develop independence, granting greater freedoms the older they get. I suspect the Authoritarian parts of my parenting style are what lead to some of the conflicts and issues with my children. I'm also a free range parent, although I was under the misconception that it meant permissive. It is described as “a common sense approach. Parents keep their children safe without protecting them too much from life.†That is my exact goal and policy, although I don't know that I am always successful at it. I'm also a consultant parent, because I absolutely believe it is better for a child to make a mistake when the consequences are less than when they are an adult.
It is a small book, but packed with lots of helpful information and ideas. I think this is one I will come back to time and time again for reference.


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