How to Raise Successful People: Simple Lessons for Radical Results

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Esther Wojcicki is leading a revolution not only in how we prepare our children to succeed, but how we nurture the health and well-being of parents across the world. I think her ideas are very valuable and parents and teachers can definitely find some inspiration in this book. Another example of collaborative parenting would be to avoid using phrases like “because I said so”.

Children of such parents have higher stress levels, lower self-esteem, and higher rates of substance abuse. She was taught in no uncertain terms that girls were lesser than boys, and women were meant to be subservient. It’s an interesting book with lots of individual parts that succeed, but I’m not sure it works as a whole. That said, I like her TRICK concept and their are some very good (and interesting) anecdotes here to learn from. They’re the result of TRICK, Woj’s secret to raising successful people: Trust, Respect, Independence, Collaboration, and Kindness.Knyga apie autorės ilgametę mamos, močiutės ir pedagogės patirtį, išmoktas pamokas ir sukurtą ugdymo sistemą (TRICK). Instead of focusing purely on success and achievement, her advice highlights the unsung values you should be passing on to your children, like trust, respect and independence.

Today there are virtual libraries of books on how to raise your kids, but so much of that advice concerns itself primarily with how to raise kids to be over-achievers. This “parenting” book doesn’t give you any cheap advice or simple lessons and that’s why I appreciated this book, because raising a successful human means demonstrating an example and living up to TRICK values yourself aaaaalll life long! However, she repeats herself a lot, and it feels very lacking in terms of any understanding of a final destination. And I like the approach of coming to terms with your own childhood first rather than simply parenting from a reactive place.Her perspective is a drastic opposite to the popular ‘helicopter’ style of parenting we see nowadays. So the number one thing [parents] can do is listen, and then they can solicit their [kids'] opinions. Rather than owning their child's success, parents can support their children in defining and achieving their own by following her TRICK approach. The idea that we as parents have control over whether our children will be successful or not is somewhat suspect, but I’m going to keep my fingers crossed that reading parenting books isn’t a waste of time, and I’l fall more towards the ‘doing something right’ rather than ‘doing things consistently wrong’ kind of parenting by reading them. At our worst, we are the indifferent hospice staff; at our best, we are Anne and her heartfelt commitment to her grandmother.

I'm grateful to her that she spent her time and energy writing this book to share her knowledge with the world.

When they feel they can’t tell you their dreams, or what life choices they make, they’ll stop trusting you. In the 1960s, when journalist and educator Esther Wojcicki was a new, young mother, she struggled to know where to turn for parenting advice. On top of that goal, we also want to build great relationships with our kids ( it’s a life mantra after all). Wojcicki shares her stories while presenting TRICK --her methodology that informs both her work as an educator and a parent. In the end, though, I am left wondering if Wojcicki’s place in the very privileged and unique “bubble” environment of Silicon Valley leaves her with some pretty major blind spots as it relates to families in less wealthy communities.

I didn't enjoy these sections as much, because as some other reviewers have mentioned, it felt like there was a lot of name dropping and the author patting herself on the back. Then we talk about these things, and you try to include some of their ideas, with some of your ideas. Further, when your child grows up feeling like what they want doesn’t matter, you’re making them easy prey for abuse. She just said it is better to stay together, then gives her daughter as a counterexample that maybe divorce is necessary sometimes, undermining her entire premise up to this point.Virtually all her sentences could be tighter, and she takes an inconsistent approach to punctuation. I think her goal with writing this book was to use whatever influence she has to make our world better. For instance on birthdays don’t let your child simply open their presents one after another, instead make them thank the person who gave it, and encourage them to sit with the gift for a moment appreciating it, before they move onto the next one.