Ronald F. Ferguson, Tatsha Robertson

The Formula (eBook, ePUB)

Unlocking the Secrets to Raising Highly Successful Children

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

We all want our children to reach their fullest potential-to be smart and well adjusted, and to make a difference in the world. We wonder why, for some people, success seems to come so naturally.

Could the secret be how they were parented?

This book unveils how parenting helped shape some of the most fascinating people you will ever encounter, by doing things that almost any parent can do. You don't have to be wealthy or influential to ensure your child reaches their greatest potential. What you do need is commitment-and the strategies outlined in this book.

In The Formula: Unlocking the Secrets to Raising Highly Successful Children, Harvard economist Ronald Ferguson, named in a New York Times profile as the foremost expert on the US educational "achievement gap," along with award-winning journalist Tatsha Robertson, reveal an intriguing blueprint for helping children from all types of backgrounds become successful adults.

Informed by hundreds of interviews, the book includes never-before-published insights from the "How I was Parented Project" at Harvard University, which draws on the varying life experiences of 120 Harvard students. Ferguson and Robertson have isolated a pattern with eight roles of the "Master Parent" that make up the Formula: the Early Learning Partner, the Flight Engineer, the Fixer, the Revealer, the Philosopher, the Model, the Negotiator, and the GPS Navigational Voice.

The Formula combines the latest scientific research on child development, learning, and brain growth and illustrates with life stories of extraordinary individuals-from the Harvard-educated Ghanian entrepreneur who, as the young child of a rural doctor, was welcomed in his father's secretive late-night political meetings; to the nation's youngest state-wide elected official, whose hardworking father taught him math and science during grueling days on the family farm in Kentucky; to the DREAMer immigration lawyer whose low-wage mother pawned her wedding ring to buy her academically outstanding child a special flute.

The Formula reveals strategies on how you-regardless of race, class, or background-can help your children become the best they can be and shows ways to maximize their chances for happy and purposeful lives.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: BenBella Books
• Seitenzahl: 323
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781946885616
• Artikelnr.: 56802721

Autorenporträt

Ronald F. Ferguson, PhD, joined the faculty at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government in 1983 and has spent his entire career there using teaching, research and writing to increase the flow of knowledge between the university and the world. An MIT-trained economist who focuses social science research on economic, social, and educational challenges, he co-founded Tripod Education Partners in 2014 and shifted into an adjunct role at the University, where he remains a fellow at the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy and faculty director of the university-wide Achievement Gap Initiative (AGI). A February 2011 profile of Ron in the New York Times wrote, "There is no one in America who knows more about the gap that Ronald Ferguson." Ron's current focus as AGI director is an initiative titled the Boston Basics. Inspired by the fact that birth-to-three is a critically important period for learning, the Basics Campaign is striving to saturate the entire community with advice and support for the parents of infants and toddlers. Ron holds an undergraduate degree from Cornell University and a PhD from MIT, both in economics. He has been happily married for 38 years and is the father of two adult sons. Tatsha Robertson, MA, is an award-winning editor and writer with more than 20 years of experience handling investigative, feature, and news stories for leading magazines and newspapers. As the first female New York City Bureau Chief and National Rover for the Boston Globe, she began studying how parents raise successful children some ten years ago. She pioneered Essence magazine's focus on investigative and news articles, which led to the positioning of the magazine as a significant authority and voice on news and led to an interview with President Obama on parenting. Most recently, she was a senior editor at People, where she focused on crime stories. She has been an adjunct professor of journalism at New York University since 2005. Ms. Robertson has been a frequent guest on national media, appearing on programs like TODAY and for television networks that include CNN, HLN, FOX, and MSNBC. A prolific writer, Robertson recently co-authored Media Circus with Kim Goldman. She is also completing a thriller. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, she grew up in Greenville, South Carolina, and earned a bachelor's degree at Morris College and a master's degree in journalism at The Ohio State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Mystery of Success The Black Box An Investigation into
Success Masters of the Formula Chapter 2. What We Mean by Success Purpose +
Agency + Smarts = Fully Realized Prodigies versus the Products of the
Formula Who Our Achievers Are and How We Chose Them
Chapter 3. The Formula The Incredible Life of Jarell Lee The Formula: The
Eight Roles of Master Parenting Parenting Styles: What Is Different About
the Formula?
Chapter 4. The Strategists The Strange and Strategic Parenting of Lisa Son
Why Esther Wojcicki Raised the Smartest Girls in the World Ms. Badger's
Holographic Ideal
Chapter 5. The Early-Learning Partner (Role #1) Rob Humble's Moment of
Truth The Science of Play Teaching a Baby to Read: The Early-Lead Effect
The Girl Raised by a Village of Teenagers
Chapter 6. The Flight Engineer (Role #2) Masters Monitor and Manage (Even
from the White House) Asserting Authority: "You Will Respect My Child"
Knowing When (Not) to Step In: "You Can Deal with Your Teacher This Time"
Chapter 7. Siblings Cautionary Tales The Receptive Child Is Your Oldest
Child Really Smarter, or Were You Just Tired with the Rest of Them?
Chapter 8. The Fixer (Role #3) The Fixer to the Rescue
Vigilance: How One Mother Deconstructed the SAT Sacrifice: Dad Says, "We
Need to Leave-Now!" Resourcefulness: The Girl Who Needed a Flute
Chapter 9. The Revealer (Role #4) Albert Einstein's Master Parents The Art
of Supplementing Education Exposure to the World-and Harsh Realities
Chapter 10. The Philosopher (Role #5) The Preschooler Who Debated Aristotle
in the Bathtub What the Philosopher Creates, Part 1: Bree Newsome's Mission
What the Philosopher Creates, Part 2: Jarell Lee's Purpose
Chapter 11. The Model (Role #6) A Ripple Effect When the Past Provides the
Model Tracing Family Mindset
Chapter 12. The Negotiator (Role #7) Bringing a Child to the Bargaining
Table Negotiators, not Pushovers Master Parent versus Tiger Parent Is the
Formula the Superior American Style of Parenting?
Chapter 13. Mastering Hurdles Success Mindset How "Gritty" Ryan Quarles
Found a Way to Win Maggie Masters a Memory Slip The Future News Anchor Who
Stuttered
Chapter 14. The GPS (Role #8) The Navigational Voice in Their Head The GPS
and the Fully Realized Human Being The Achievers as Parents
Conclusion: The Formula's Secret Acknowledgments Notes Index About the
Authors