Every Child Has a Thinking Style: A Guide to Recognizing and Fostering Each Child's Natural Gifts and Preferences-- To Help Them Learn, Thrive, and Ac

by Lanna Nakone

Identifies four natural thinking styles--penguins (maintainers), dogs (harmonizers), horses (innovators), and lions (prioritizers)--and provides parents with an innovative approach to understanding and encouraging children's individual thinking styles, sensory preferences, gender, and personality tendencies. Original. 15,000 first printing.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0399532463
• ISBN13: 9780399532467
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Perigee Books
• Length: 259 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher

Customer Reviews

Great tool for teachers

As a private music instructor I'm always looking for insights into my students to help them learn effectively. This book is definitely enlightening. It is already helping me communicate on their individual levels in a more productive manner. And it is a lot more enjoyable teaching when I can understand more how they are thinking.

I learned so much about my family!

I bought this book at a seminar at my child's school that was given by some local organizers who focus on students. I really appreciate this book, because a light bulb went off in my head about myself, my husband and older daughter. I had really been interacting with my husband and daughter in the wrong way. I have begun making changes that would enhance our ways of relating to each other. I haven't figured out my younger daughter because she really seems to be spread across the different groups, but I will form a plan myself that will be specific to her. I highly recommend this book!!!

Very Insightful and Easy to Read

I found this book extremely insightful and it was easy to spot our thinking styles even with out the test. There were some questions that were hard to answer but no different than any other personality type assesment. I do think this would be hard to use for a parent of a young child. My childern were 4 and 6 when I took the assesments. I made several changes to how my children's rooms were set up based suggestions in the book and I feel that it has made quite a difference. Does that mean that everything is neat and clutter free?? No but when it is time to clean up and put things away, it is much more condusive to their style. Although it is true that this book does not go very deep into how to make your thinking style work for you or give specific plans for transforming your childs life with this information, that is ok. I have read so many books like that and then felt disappointed because the "step by step" was too much to follow so I did not follow through. This book give examples and leaves you with a basic knowledge to put some idealogical changes into play. The book is a short and entertaining read and worth the money and time.

Great info

I am a Professional Organizer and this is an outstanding book. It really helps you get into the minds of little ones and help them make the most of their own natural abilities.