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Early in his career, Steve Anderson noticed that many of his fellow university graduates went through extensive employment trial and error that cost them several years an average of seven of delay in settling into careers.
With determination to help high school and college students to avoid this experience, he founded Eagle "U, "
This gave him the opportunity to interact with students from across the country, It was in this process that he discovered that much of the lack of direction that is characteristic of young people has its roots in the youths interchanges with conscientious and thoughtful parents, coaches, advisors and other adults in positions of influence.
Some or all of these were unknowingly causing the young people to develop habits that can cause delays in career development,
With a great depth of experience interacting with students, the author documented in a book the things he discovered so that parents would be sensitive to potential mistakes before they are committed.
Here are some of the things youll discover in this book:
What parental actions cause young people to lack motivation,
How parents subconsciously affect young peoples choice of friends,
What can be done to make young people more selfreliant,
What parental actions cause young people to develop approval addiction,
How to keep young people from allowing "average" to be acceptable,
How parents cause young people to take everything they have for granted,
What can be done to help young people enjoy being conscientious workers,
How to show young people the right path without seeming to be overbearing,
Anyone can benefit from the contents of this book, It gives a guide to any adult who interacts with young people that cant be found anywhere else,
One of the worst books on correcting behavior, much less parenting that I have ever read,I read it for work, to apply basic behavioral modification techniques toward employees, and feel as if my time was utterly wasted.
The scenarios presented, while at times plausible, the completed work was contradictory and ultimately insulting to children and parents, The final chapter goes so far as to explain that the techniques used in the book are proven true by the young adults at "Eagle U", people which are vetted to be likely candidates for success.
Which defeats the purpose of behavior modification in general, If the lessons in this book are only applicable toward the people most likely to succeed, it only proves useful to a small fraction of people that need to know the things taught in this book.
Utter failure in every way this book was intended to be meaningful, I found this book at a used bookstore and bought it on a whim, I don't have a lot of experience with parenting books, so I do not know how it compares, but in the end it was worth reading.
There were some very good suggestions and just a few sections that were boring, Best of all it was very easy to read so I have no problem passing it to my husband and think it will spark some really good conversation.
Curious what some of the "mistakes" are Here were a few of my favorite chaptersCreating and Fostering the Entitlement Attitude,, Faling to Recognize that your Children Will Not Likely Rise Above What You Expect of
Them,, Being a Victim of Approval Addiction and Passing It on to Your Children,, Providing Dependable "Emergency Rescue"
I think this book is focusing more on parenting older children and teenagers, though of course it probably all starts in the womb and I just don't know it yet: There is than one author by this name in the Goodreads data base.
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