How Can We Equip Our Children to Succeed? explores how we can enable our children and young people to develop the characteristics to maintain their own wellbeing and succeed in learning and life. Knowledge and skills are important, but they don't make the difference. This book shares the thinking, attitudes and behaviours that make the difference in our young people realising their personal, educational, social and economic potential. Based on vast experience and wide-ranging research into learning and development, the author identifies what it takes to succeed in our fast-paced, ever-changing world. The book shares the author's unique framework in an accessible way, illustrated with examples from raising her own children. Focused on what makes the difference in those who achieve, excel and maintain wellbeing, in any field of endeavour, it provides insights that are of value to everyone, not only parents. From exploring how we learn and how to improve our capacity to learn, to understanding how our brains work and how we can systematically manage our thinking, the book covers every topic in detail. It enables the reader to develop understanding and immediately apply what they have learned. This book goes beyond theory in the way the author shares real-life, thought provoking experiences. Great tools and techniques in the book are supported by a wide range of materials that are free to download from the author's website.
About the Author: Beverley Burton is a leading educationalist who has led, and contributed to, development programmes in education and sport across the UK, Europe an beyond. Beverley has developed a unique framework, workshops and materials to develop the thinking, attitudes, behaviours and core capabilities essential to thrive, succeed and maintain wellbeing. She is passionate about equipping people, especially young people, to realise their potential. Beverley seeks to empower young people to be learners: motivated and equipped to constantly learn, unlearn, relearn. Her work is focused on challenging and expecting young people to aim high: set goals and achieve them. A leading light in enterprise learning, Beverley's work helps schools equip young people to be able to see, create, develop and make the most of opportunities. Beverley's learning and development programmes with organisations focus on equipping individuals to continuously improve, manage stress and maintain. Her equipped2lead programmes enable individuals to develop those with whom they work. Over the past 25 years, Beverley has combined her full-time professional role with her main role: raising her children, Harriet and George. Her work has informed her parenting and raising two children has expanded and challenged her thinking. Creating her vision for being the best parent she could be when her daughter was born, Beverley has sought to nurture, empower, enable and equip her children to realise their potential. In her work with parents, she openly shares practical, real-life examples of how she has equipped her own children to become rounded, self-determining individuals following their dreams and realising their goals.