Awakening Your Child's Natural Genius

by Thomas Armstrong

Advises how children can achieve full potential through at-home activities and offers suggestions for expanding a child's natural and often unrecognized ability

Genres: Parenting, Education, Nonfiction

268 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 1991

About the author

I am the author of 20 books, including my latest The Power of Neurodiversity: Unleashing the Advantages of Your Neurodivergent Brain (Completely Updated and Revised Second Edition), which is a complete rewrite of a book I wrote with a similar title but slightly different subtitle in 2010.

My other books include: The Myth of the ADHD Child, 7 Kinds of Smart, Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom, and The Power of the Adolescent Brain. I've also written for Family Circle, Ladies Home Journal, and the AMA Journal of Ethics.

I see myself as a reader as much as, or even more than, a writer. Some of the books which I've enjoyed recently include Joseph and His Sons by Thomas Mann, The Story of the Stone/Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin, the complete Arabian Nights (3 volumes), translated by Malcolm C. Lyons, The Studs Lonigan Trilogy by James T. Farrell, and From Here to Eternity by James Jones.

Beyond literature and writing, my hobbies and pursuits include improvising on the piano, doing mindfulness meditation, watching great movies on The Criterion Channel, doing yoga, and cooking Mediterranean cuisine.

Married for twenty-five years, and now divorced, I live in a cute Victorian style home on a hill in Sonoma County, California with my dog Daisy.

Reviews

[Joy Wood · Rating 5 out of 5]

The best parenting book I read while pregnant!! I still use things I learned 30+ years later! Timeless!!!

[Cecile · Rating 2 out of 5]

Evolutionary theory spoiled it before the first twenty-five pages were done.

[Vida · Rating 3 out of 5]

Priročnik za starše ali bodoče. Ki vam pove, da je genij vsak otrok. Ne pa v klasičnem pomenu besede. Sicer praktični nasveti, a zanimivo branje predvsem za razmišljanje o temi - šola, forsiranje otrok na čim več prostočasnih dejavnosti in podobno...

[Clarissa · Rating 3 out of 5]

A lot of it seems like common sense. I wish there were more focus on encouraging your child's interest in the sciences since that is what my daughter is interested in. I can think of plenty of ideas myself, but had hoped for more than a very general chapter on the subject.