A review by gladiolus17
The Self-Driven Child: The Science and Sense of Giving Your Kids More Control Over Their Lives by William Stixrud, Ned Johnson

informative inspiring lighthearted medium-paced

4.0

This book was very helpful in how to raise motivated kids. The main idea can be summed up as: “you can’t force your kids to do what they can’t do.”  I was worried about this if I were ever to have kids. What would I do if they wouldn’t do their homework? The answer is: I can’t force them. I can only inform them the consequences of their actions. That took a lot of pressure off.

I would agree with everything in here aside from the part about monitoring your kid’s phone. I believe that looking through my kid’s messages and where they are online is an invasion of privacy. But I suppose if they let me, it’d be no problem, but otherwise I wouldn’t want to do it.