8 Secrets to Raising Successful Kids: Nurturing Character, Respect, and a Winning Attitude

by Kevin Leman

Popular parenting expert reveals eight parenting strategies that will help you raise kids who demonstrate character, have a winning attitude, show respect, and more while deepening the relationship between you and your child.

Genres: Parenting, Family, Nonfiction

256 pages, Hardcover

Published May 4, 2021

About the author

Dr. Kevin Leman, an internationally known psychologist, radio and television personality, and speaker, has taught and entertained audiences worldwide with his wit and commonsense psychology. The best-selling and award-winning author has made house calls for hundreds of radio and television programs, including The View with Barbara Walters, The Today Show, Oprah, CBS's The Early Show, Live with Regis Philbin, CNN's American Morning, and LIFE Today with James Robison, and he has served as a contributing family psychologist to Good Morning America. He is the founder and president of Couples of Promise, an organization designed and committed to helping couples remain happily married. Dr. Leman is also a charter faculty member of iQuestions.com. He has written over 30 best-selling books about marriage and family issues, including The Birth Order Book and Sheet Music: Uncovering the Secrets of Sexual Intimacy in Marriage. Dr. Leman and his wife, Sande, live in Tucson. They have five children.

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Reviews

[Isaac · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not as helpful as I expected. Leman basically advocates being firm, consistent, respectful, and giving kids natural consequences. The self-promotion was a little much. He talks way too much about birth order (oh wait, he literally wrote the book on it!) and touts his school more than I cared to hear about. There are some helpful responses to real world situations that many may find helpful. Aiming at a wider audience, Leman is so standoffish in regard to faith that this cannot be regarded as a Christian parenting book.

[Abram Bagunu · Rating 2 out of 5]

Dr. Leman offer several helpful practical tips. At times, the author can assume or promise things I don’t think he is capable of controlling. Several of his principles I think are too universal. They may be helpful assumptions, but they can’t be considered universal guidelines for parents. The writer uses a lot of stories which eat up a lot of page. For struggling parents, this might be helpful. However, for someone casually reading it slows the book down heavily. Overall doing some research and finding a helpful analysis of the book or merely looking at the table of contents, and finding information or chapters that seem appealing to you is probably better than sitting down and reading through the whole book. The author is probably more old school or traditional than mini modern parents will appreciate. While things such as respect and kindness should transcend into modern parenting, some will probably thinkers, parenting or disciplinary styles are not compatible with their lives.

[Kate · Rating 4 out of 5]

Overall, I found this book to be practical and helpful to me personally. Like his other books, I don't 100% agree with it all of his philosophies, but I still garnered a lot of good from this book. Kevin is an engaging author and this book is a pleasant read that has many helpful tips and practical ideas dispersed throughout.

[Wintermote · Rating 3 out of 5]

Great ideas of the character traits parents hope to install in their kids, but I wasn’t onboard with all of the harsh tactics for “teaching lessons”. Children can learn and experience natural consequences without parents setting them up to fail.

[Tiffanie Nelson-Marquez · Rating 5 out of 5]

As with all Leman books I have read, this one was inspiring, educational, and refreshing.

[Jeffrey Bush · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoy almost every book by this author. Book is practical, helpful, and humorous at times.

[Heather · Rating 2 out of 5]

Same as every other parenting book ever.