Author: Cynthia Ulrich Tobias
My Rating: 4.25/5 stars
Content Rating: G
Tidbit: A look at a variety of learning styles to help parents understand their children better.
Quote: "...each person is a complex and unique combination of natural strengths and preferences."
This was one of my backlist reads! My friend, who has
home-schooled two of her daughters, shared it with me 3 or 4 years ago;
because she knows I've considered home-schooling since before my oldest
started Kindergarten. While we haven't chosen to home-school yet, it's
always a possibility. So I was grateful for this read!
I
enjoyed this one quite a bit. I chuckled a few times at the stories the
author included (especially those about she and her husband who seem
pretty much opposites). I also couldn't help seeing myself and my
husband in a few of the category descriptions. And it explains SO much.
To
give you an example, I'm the kind of Concrete Sequential list-maker who
adds items to my list that weren't originally on said list, but which I
accomplished, just so I can cross them off. My husband optimizes EVERYTHING, including toilet paper, and I think it drives him crazy that my brain doesn't work that way.
That
said, I love that she cautions us not to pigeon-hole ourselves or
others, because though we may have certain dominant ways of learning and
perceiving information, we still have aspects of other types. And we
can learn other types too!
I
just thought this book was a great look at different types of
intelligences as well as different learning types. Now I'll try to
notice how my kids learn best!
If I have any complaints, it's that I think it needed a little more editing checks.
