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BestParentCourse.com: Five Skills Your Child Needs to Thrive- and the One Parent Skill that Builds Them

by Alan E. Nelson
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9798198681682
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Independently Published
  • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published
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  • Pages: 202
  • Original Price: USD 14.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 277 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): General

Five skills your child needs to thrive. And the one skill that builds them all.
Most parents aren't secretly hoping their child becomes a Fortune 500 CEO. They want something simpler and harder: a son or daughter who grows into a genuinely capable adult, one who can handle setbacks, conflict, and pressure without unraveling, think independently, and contribute something real to the world.

The trouble is that the everyday moments that used to build those capacities are disappearing. Schedules are tighter, screens are constant, and artificial intelligence now stands ready to do the thinking, calculating, and writing on a child's behalf. The skills childhood once produced almost by accident, like figuring things out, owning a mistake, recovering, and working well with others, are quietly going unbuilt.

This book names five of them, the capacities Alan Nelson calls The Five: resourcefulness, responsibility, resilience, communication, and collaboration. They aren't values you instill or traits a child is born with. They're skills, learnable in any child, preteen, or teen during the years between 5 and 15, when the window is widest.

Yes, the title is bold. BestParentCourse.com isn't a claim that Nelson has parenting figured out; he's the first to say he doesn't. It's a claim about a method: he believes there is one best way to build The Five in a child between 5 and 15, and that this book explains it. The title is simply him saying so plainly. What childhood once did automatically, a parent can now do on purpose. Carpe decennium. Seize the decade.

Alan E. Nelson has spent decades teaching - undergraduates at USC and Pepperdine, graduate students at the Naval Postgraduate School - and 25 years as a pastor before that, giving him a rare, long look at how families thrive and how they struggle. He and his wife, Nancy, raised three sons. The framework in this book is one he has watched form, fail, and re-form in real homes, including his own.

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