The Strength Switch

Outline

The Strength Switch (2017) shows parents how focusing on their children’s strengths, rather than only correcting weaknesses, can help kids grow more confident, resilient, and happy. Lea Waters explains the science of positive psychology and offers practical tools for spotting and building each child’s talents and character strengths. The book helps families create more positive, encouraging relationships at home.

• Focusing on a child's strengths, rather than only correcting weaknesses, helps children grow more confident, resilient, and happy.
• Lea Waters draws on positive psychology to explain why building on what a child does well works.
• Each child has their own talents and character strengths, and parents can learn to spot and build them.
• The book offers practical tools that parents can use at home to bring out those strengths.
• A strengths-based approach helps families build more positive, encouraging relationships with one another.

Lea Waters is an Australian psychologist, researcher, and professor at the University of Melbourne, where she founded the Centre for Wellbeing Science. She is a leading expert in positive education and strength-based parenting. The Strength Switch is her first book for parents.