Best feature: Each of the 200 "ways" has a short action step individualized for both parents and teachers. Makes implementation of the ideas much easier.
Pet peeve: No index....aarggh!practical tips easily digested and implemented What a find! Borrowed from the library and soon to become a core source of smart, practical and important strategies for helping my daughter navigate her complicated world and become a person of strength and generousity. It is the type of book useful to those who enjoy well written parenting books and those who want something that they can pick up and put down, as time permits.
This book probably is useful to parents or caregivers who need to review or talk about these items. For parents or caregivers to a child with moderate academic, social, or emotional problems, however, this book is insufficient. Readers should turn to books by Myrna Shure, Martin Seligman, and others.
This book matches a similar book for boys, from the same publisher, 200 Ways to Raise a Boy's Emotional Intelligence. Why is it that we think of self-esteem for girls and emotional intelligence for boys?