Blurb:
A detailed, practical guide to help
parents (and teachers!) understand how different personality types
learn best. INCLUDES PERSONALITY QUIZ!
The techniques revealed in this book
will teach parents specific, research-backed, actionable strategies
amassed from nearly 100 reference texts with respect to:
* How to create a learning environment
that allows their kids to excel and develop confidence in their
abilities.
* How to support and encourage their
kids' educations in ways that are best for him or her.
* How to teach their kids the
strategies that help them each play to their individual learning
strengths.
Book reveals how each of the eight
personality types naturally:
* Get organized
* Get motivated
* Approach new concepts
* Learn in groups
* Take notes and "file"
knowledge
* Tackle homework and test prep
* Gravitate to certain extracurriculars
and teachers
* Handle successes and failures
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I received an e-ARC copy of this book for a blog tour in return for an honest review. I don't have children of my own, but I found this book has a lot of great points about helping your child to learn effectively and efficiently for their own unique spirit. This book is very interesting and a fascinating read that all parents and teacher even, should pick up and read. This is a recommended must read and wonderful learning tool.
Most
of my favorite authors are indie or self-pubbed, what made you decide
to go that route?
I
started writing the book after
I
started Kidzmet, so I knew there were a decent number of parents that
would be interested in the information. My main goal was to get the
information out to parents as quickly as possible, since the
techniques had been so helpful in my own house—not just with my son
and daughter, but I actually used some of them on myself with good
results! And when I looked at the percentages that everyone takes
along the way, I thought it might make better sense to get something
out on the market, see what people liked (and didn’t like) most
about the book, and then
potentially get to a place where I could talk to a publisher with a
higher likelihood of them wanting to work with me.
What
was one of the most surprising things you learned in creating your
book?
How
long some of these strategies have been around, yet they have not
been implemented in large part in education. It was so refreshing to
be reminded in both the researching and writing phases that there’s
not one “right” way to learn.
Do
you have a particular writing habit?
I’m
an early bird, so I get up around 4am to write pretty much every day.
If I try to write after work, it’s just not as cohesive. It’s
also nice to have a couple of hours of silence with only my thoughts
before the whirlwind starts. It doesn’t matter whether I’m
working on a book, an article, or just journaling…I like the act of
writing. (Though my eyes probably wish I didn’t spend this
much time in front of a screen.)
Are
there any new authors that have grasped your interest?
In
the non-fiction realm, if you haven’t read Kathleen Cushman’s
book Fires
in the Mind,
I highly recommend it. In the fiction realm, I love Veronica Roth’s
Divergent
and Kevin Wilson’s The
Family Fang.
I’ve been a part of a monthly book club for years (shout out to my
Read Wine book club!) which has been a great place to discover new
authors. We each pick a book for the month we host and we’ve always
gotten a broad spectrum of book styles, which means I pick up books
that I never would on my own. I love books in general, though. I
spend most of my “play money” on Kindle.
What
is the hardest part of your writing?
Editing
things for brevity. I tend to be long-winded and use too many 50 cent
words in my first drafts. I like a lot of words and love how precise
language can be, so I forget that people prefer USA
Today
or Twitter-based reading these days…not the New
York Times.
Do
you have any advice for other writers?
If
you love to write, carve out time for it. It doesn’t matter if you
end up producing anything, the act of writing in-and-of-itself will
put you in a better place. Now I just need to figure out how to make
time for making music again!
Describe
yourself in three words.
My
daughter just told me she would describe me as “nice, caring and
helpful.” That’s a much nicer description than I would use, so
I’ll go with that. I tend to be self-deprecating, as many of the
adults I know are. (Why are we like that??)
Any
song or songs that could basically sum up the overall mood of your
writing?
I
have four Spotify playlists that I click on when I’m writing. If
you look them up, you’ll see that my mood while writing tends to
vary dramatically! I listen to Hector and Serafin’s playlists the
most, though.
- Creativity Music by Hector Acuna
- Seraphinsky by Serafin Canchola
- Motivating by Jana Zilcher
- Inspiration by Raymond Lau
If
you had to choose, which writer would you consider the biggest
influence in your writing?
Richard
Bach. Even though he writes fiction, his writing feels very honest
and poignant to me. I aspire to have the same kind of voice in my
writing that he brings to his books.
What
are your current projects? Can you share a little of your current
work with us?
I’m
slowly working on a book that overlays the 8 types of learning
personality types on Costa and Kallick’s 16 Habits of Mind. I’ve
done a couple of Webinars on it, but could never get the audio aspect
to be “listenable,” so I’m in the process of doing it as a book
instead. I am looking for a way to translate A
Parent’s Playbook for Learning
to an audiobook, though. We love Audible and LearningAlly in our
house. After reading, my kids each go to bed with an audiobook every
night.
Jen completed her undergraduate senior
thesis on Howard Gardner's theory of Multiple Intelligence
and its effect on self-esteem,
attendance rates and love of learning in 1994 and in the years prior
to
founding Kidzmet, she worked in the
education industry in various capacities including brand and
product management for Jump-start
educational software and in marketing for a non-traditional
post-secondary certification. Once she
became a parent, she started seeing just how differently her
kids learned than she did...and was
reminded how critical it is that teachers and parents “get” how
each unique student likes to learn in
order for kids to become engaged, enthusiastic learners. She
also started to realize how many
parents didn’t know personality-based techniques and strategies
that
could help their kids learn how to
learn better.
Ms. Lilienstein currently serves on the
Editorial Board of the National After-school Association, the
Publications and Platform Committees of
the NAA, the Quality Committee of the CA After-school
Network, and advocates for After-school
for All with the After-school Alliance. She is also a member of
BOOST and ASCD. Ms. Lilienstein is also
a weekly contributor on the Total Education Network,
which is syndicated on 80+ networks and
heard by more than a million people in 180 countries
around the world.
At home, Jen is Mom to an extroverted
seven year-old daughter--who has already dabbled in music,
swimming, gymnastics, ballet, nature,
yoga and art--and an introverted four year-old son who loves
to do puzzles, build with LEGOs,
examine the lives of animals and insects, and admire anything with
an engine.
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