Breaking Through the Cocoon—Discovering Your Child's Innate Strengths: Discovering Your Child's Innate Strengths

Author: Mel Levine
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: In the vast book market of the United States each year, only a handful of books manage to reach the top of the important bestseller lists. In the second half of 2002, a book discussing a brand-new educational philosophy and learning model quickly climbed the rankings and remained at the top for a long time—it was The Miseducation of Children. It is hard to imagine a book that spans the field of education and garners such sincere enthusiasm and warm recognition from parents and educators. In the vast book market of the United States each year, only a handful of books manage to reach the top of the important bestseller lists. In the second half of 2002, a book discussing a brand-new educational philosophy and learning model quickly climbed the rankings and remained at the top for a long time—it was The Miseducation of Children. It is hard to imagine a book that spans the field of education and garners such sincere enthusiasm and warm recognition from parents and educators. It lacks any dazzling gimmicks or irresponsible promises. It is the result of a physician and researcher's 30 years of clinical observations, collaborations with schools worldwide, and comprehensive analysis using neurological knowledge. The learning model it proposes explains that different ways of thinking correspond to different learning styles and needs. It provides an effective means for understanding and helping children who struggle with academic performance due to underdeveloped brain skills. At the same time, it helps parents and educators recognize the issues faced by children who lack intellectual disabilities, are not slow-witted, nor lazy, but do face significant learning challenges. Understanding a child's way of thinking is not an easy task, and the author frankly admits that this book could not have been written decades ago. Only in recent years, with increased research funding for learning models, brain function, and educational failure, have we found ways to understand it. The immense significance of this revolutionary discovery is self-evident. When educators truly understand a child's way of thinking, they will joyfully discover alongside the child that no child is incapable of success. Outstanding children will become even more outstanding, and what are often called "failing" children are far smarter and stronger than imagined—they have their own path to success, as long as it is not obstructed.