How am I Smart? A Parent's Guide to Multiple Intelligences

by Koch, PhD, Kathy; Stonestreet, John

• ISBN13: 9780802402837
• ISBN10: 0802402836
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-02-01
• Publisher: Moody Publishers

Summary

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, “In what way am I smart?” Dr. Kathy Koch’s down-to-earth and practical guide to the theory of multiple intelligences helps parents and teachers discern and develop their children’s unique wiring.

How Am I Smart? will help you:

• Identify how your child can best learn and study
• Explore your child’s characteristic spiritual struggles and his or her ways of connecting to God
• Learn how you can awaken and nurture your child’s weaker intelligences
• Uncover how your behavior can paralyze your child’s smarts, and what to do about it
• Recognize how your child’s misbehavior may be connected to his or her strengths
• Discover creative teaching methods and potential careers that are ideal for each intelligence

Every child is some combination of the following smarts: word, logic, picture, music, body, nature, people, and self. The sooner you and your child discover his or her best smarts, the sooner you can nurture their potential and help them to flourish and use their gifts for God and others.   

Author Biography

As the Founder and President of CELEBRATE KIDS, Inc. of Fort Worth, Texas, Dr. KATHY KOCH (pronounced "cook") teaches parents, educators, children of all ages, and missionaries nationally and internationally at school-, church-, and convention-sponsored events. Among key truths embraced by thousands have been these: "Kids are human beings, not human doings" and "Kids have present value, not just future potential." She and her team are known for providing relevant, practical, and detailed solutions that people implement and keep using because they work and prevent further problems. Dr. Kathy's first book, Finding Authentic Hope and Wholeness: 5 Questions that Will Change Your Life was published by Moody in 2005. Dr. Kathy has been a professor, teacher, coach, and school board member.

Table of Contents

1. "How Am I Smart'" An Introduction to Multiple Intelligences2. What Are My Core Needs' How are Multiple Intelligences Relevant'3. I Think with Words... I Am Developing My Word Smart! 4. I Think With Questions... I Am Developing My Logic Smart! 5. I Think With Pictures... I Am Developing My Picture Smart!6. I Think with Rhythms and Melodies... I Am Developing My Music Smart!7. I Think With Movement and Touch... I Am Developing Body Smart!8. I Think with Patterns... I Am Developing My Nature Smart!9. I Think with People... I Am Developing My People Smart!10. I Think by Reflecting... I Am Developing My Self Smart!