Leading clinical psychologist Andrew Fuller says that children are born bright and curious – with a greater capacity for inner genius than we realise.
In Unlocking Your Child’s Genius, Andrew Fuller shows that by encouraging their child’s own learning strengths, parents can help develop the skills and experiences that allow genius to emerge. He also encourages parents to recognise the qualities in their child that predict genius – creativity, motivation, determination, imagination and the willingness to keep going despite making mistakes.
In this way parents can be their child’s most important teacher.
Covering the age range of 2 to 18, Andrew Fuller draws upon the latest research and his own extensive work with thousands of children in private practice to show parents how to help their child build these essential foundation skills.
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The most important message you can give your child
Introduction
Chapter 1 Nurturing genius – your role
Chapter 2 The genius brain
Chapter 3 Identifying and building your child’s learning strengths
Chapter 4 Increasing concentration skills
Chapter 5 Encouraging effective thinking
Chapter 6 Teaching kids to plan
Chapter 7 Developing the art of decision-making
Chapter 8 Motivation, persistence and grit
Chapter 9 Building a can-do mindset – the psychology of genius
Chapter 10 Imagination, creativity and problem-solving
Chapter 11 Organising information
Chapter 12 Improving memory and learning
Chapter 13 Practising to improve
Chapter 14 Powering up the genius brain
Chapter 15 Establishing family routines and rituals
Chapter 16 Genius in action
Acknowledgements
Author’s notes
Index
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Andrew Fuller has recently been described as an ‘interesting mixture of Billy Connolly, Tim Winton and Frasier Crane’ and as someone who ‘puts the heart back into psychology’. As a clinical psychologist, Andrew Fuller works with many schools and communities in Australia and internationally, specialising in the wellbeing of young people and their families. He is a Fellow of the Department of Psychiatry and the Department of Learning and Educational Development at the University of Melbourne.