My wife recently recommended several books to me. The first one, Bringing Up Geeks by Marybeth Hicks talks about how you can raise Genuine, Enthusiastic, Empowered Kids (hence GEEKS).
The book is broken up into 10 chapters; each chapter focusing on a different potential aspects of your future geek's personality. There are chapters for raising brainiacs, team players, an uncommon kid, a principled kid, a faithful kid, etc.
Each chapter opens with a real life example drawn from the author's life experience and then lays out the principles behind the aspect and closes with a Q&A session and activities to foster that behaviour. I really like the examples because they are broken into school-age categories (elementary, middle and high school) and are really easy to implement.
I really enjoyed this book and agree with 95% of what the author recommends. There were a few areas that I disagree (the author seems to govern with an iron fist whereas I like to allow my kids a little free reign. The chapter involving mass media was a touch too controlling for my tastes.)
CCL #483 – Collecting Controversy
5 years ago
