Play to Their Strengths: A New Approach to Parenting Your Kids as God Made Them

Bring Out the Best in Your Children How can a good parent like you become an even greater parent? By shifting the focus to what?s right with your kids instead of what is wrong with them. Discover how you can replace your frustration with joy by taking the pressure of performance and comparison off your children?s shoulders. Based in the belief that every child has God-given greatness within them, Play to Their Strengths shows you how to move with the natural momentum of your kids? talents and make the shift to a collaborative, strengths-based, and motivational approach to parenting. You?ll see the powerful results of this shift in your children?s shining eyes-and your own. The unique Playbook in the back of the book equips you to put into practice the ideas in each chapter. Answer questions and engage in activities with your spouse and kids to uncover talent and discover greatness. The Playbook makes great advice personal as you apply it to the specific family dynamics in your home.   Now is the perfect time to experience a fresh fascination with your children and uncover the hidden gem inside each of them.   Review ?Analyn and Brandon Miller have created one of the best places to start developing a parenting approach based in strengths!? -Tom Rath, researcher and author of the bestseller StrengthsFinder 2.0?This book is a powerful and empowering read for any parent who wants to bring out the God-given gifts in their child.? -Lea Waters, psychologist and author of The Strength Switch: How the New Science of Strength-Based Parenting Can Help Your Child and Your Teen to Flourish?Analyn and Brandon are inviting parents everywhere to help each child find what makes their eyes shine with happiness. I love their journey, the lessons they?ve learned, and the tools they share with parents everywhere. Highly recommended!? -Paul Allen, CEO of Soar.com?While reading Play to Their Strengths, all I could think about was how fast I wanted to give a copy to my son and daughter-in-law-new parents of my first grandchild. Who wouldn?t want to learn parenting wisdom from Brandon and Analyn, who have played to the strengths of seven children?? -Brent O?Bannon, author of Let?s Talk Strengths?In this age of parenting the perfect child and the stress that goal brings upon all parties, this tremendously powerful resource offers a quieter, stronger, more effective approach. Become friends with this book and listen to its wisdom. One of my favorite lines is, ?Who is this child, and how do we parent her to become who God made her to be?? Ask yourself what kind of life you would have had if your parents had adopted that approach! The chapters and parenting playbook are remarkable and entertaining-get your highlighter out and mark those ideas that resonate with you. Think about how they apply to your family-your children, nieces or nephews, or grandchildren. Then put them to work and experience for yourself how everything changes. Your kids will love you for it. I promise.? -Maureen Electa Monte, author of Destination Unstoppable?If you?re frustrated and irritated with your kids all the time, there may be something deeper for you to discover. What would it be like if you could identify your child?s natural talents and fall in love with who they were born to be? And what if you could uncover their mission and the calling on their life and encourage and nurture them along the way? Sound like lofty ideas, almost impossible to attain?until you read Play to Their Strengths. The methods and strategies in this amazing book by Brandon and Analyn Miller are timely and relevant for any generation and any family. Finally!? -Rhonda Knight Boyle, author of Turning Talents into Strengths: Stories of Coaching Transformation?Play to Their Strengths will help you become a better parent and your child become the best they can be.? -Dave Ferguson, pastor and author of Hero Maker: 5 Essential Practices fo