Synopses & Reviews
Help your children be smart with their smarts! At one time or another, most kids will ask—or secretly wonder—“Am I smart?” But a better question is
“How am I smart?” Dr. Kathy Koch’s down-to-earth guide to the scientific theory of multiple intelligences helps parents and teachers discern and develop their children’s unique wiring.
Understand the eight “smarts” at work in your childIdentify how your child can best learn and studyExplore your child’s characteristic spiritual struggles and his ways of connecting to GodLearn how you can awaken and nurture your child’s weaker intelligencesRecognize how your child’s misbehavior may be connected to his or her strengthsDiscover creative teaching methods and potential careers that are a perfect fit for each intelligence
Read How Am I Smart? to:
How is your child smart? ¨ Word smart ¨ Logic smart ¨ Picture smart ¨ Music smart ¨ Body smart ¨ Nature smart ¨ People smart ¨ Self smart
Synopsis
Has your daughter come to you in tears, asking, "e;Am I smart?"e; Or has your son wanted to know, "e;How smart am I?"e; Dr. Koch wants children to ask an even
more important question "e;How am I smart?"e; When parents determine ways children can be smart, they'll better nderstand their own children's educational
needs. This must-read reveals roots of behavior struggles and relationship conflicts, and their possible solutions. Dr. Koch unfolds the eight different ways intelligence manifests itself through multiple intelligences providing valuable ideas that pay rich dividends for you and your children.
About the Author
DR. KATHY KOCH is the Founder and President of Celebrate Kids, Inc., a Christian ministry based in Fort Worth, Texas. She is an internationally celebrated speaker who has influenced thousands of parents, teachers, and children in over 25 countries through keynote messages, workshops, seminars, assemblies, and other events. She also blogs regularly at www.DrKathyKoch.com.Dr. Kathy¿s newest book, coauthored with Jill Savage, No More Perfect Kids: Love Your Kids For Who They Are, helps parents understand why they must get to know their children to parent them wisely. How Am I Smart? A Parent¿s Guide to Multiple Intelligences helps parents understand their children¿s learning strengths. Finding Authentic Hope and Wholeness: 5 Questions That Will Change Your Life provides a solution-focused, enriching approach to real problems. Her book, Screens and Teens: Connecting with Our Kids in a Wireless World, will be published in March, 2015.Dr. Kathy earned a Ph.D. in reading and educational psychology from Purdue University. She was a tenured associate professor of education at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, a teacher of second graders, a middle school coach, and a school board member prior to becoming a full-time conference and keynote speaker in 1991.
Table of Contents
1 “How Am I Smart?” An Introduction to the Eight Great Smarts
2 “I Will Be Smart with My Smarts!” Multiple Intelligences and Character Intersect
3 I am Word Smart: I Think with Words
4 I am Logic Smart: I Think with Questions
5 I am Picture Smart: I Think with My Eyes
6 I am Music Smart: I Think with Rhythms and Melodies
7 I am Body Smart: I Think with Movement and Touch
8 I am Nature Smart: I Think with Patterns
9 I am People Smart: I Think with People
10 I am Self Smart: I Think with Reflection
Appendix A: Learning Vocabulary Definitions with All Eight Smarts
Appendix B: Thinking Verbs
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments
About Celebrate Kids, Inc.