The Steps 12 Secrets to Raising Happy and Successful Kids
As parents, we are always searching for ways to raise our children smarter, better, and happier. What you are about to read is a different kind of parenting book with its unique insights that can last for a lifetime... Using storytelling to convey the message, Dr. Andrew Watson, and Dr. Charles Watson, Ph.D., wrote an engaging and fun-to-read translation of the best research on the field of effective parenting and child development. The Steps: 12 Secrets to Raising Happy and Successful Kids is an amusing and enlightening story of Estela, a hard-nosed journalist in search of answers to the struggling education system. Eager to understand what works and what can be done better, Estela stumbles upon a young boy with Down syndrome. To her surprise, he can read better than half of the adults she knows. Intrigued with the exceptional ability of the boy, she finds out that he attends the Awake Clinic, where Dr. Michael Jansen, a world-renowned neurologist, works. There, Estela discovers about the Steps, an innovative protocol based on the recent advances of neuroscience and psychology. The Steps targets the development of communication and language of the child, early reading, creativity, self-control, discipline, grit, and values, among other things, to give the right tools to promote the cognitive, psychomotor, and affective skills of the baby, the child, and the adolescent, producing highly successful adults with above-average abilities.Dr. Michael Jansen decides to share with Estela the 12 Steps from the protocol. In the meantime, she finds out about her pregnancy. What better time to find out if the Steps really work?