Discipline - Softcover

Kern, Harris; Jensen, Dawn; Muniz, Mayra

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1420863207 ISBN 13: 9781420863208

Publisher: Authorhouse, 2005

Synopsis

This book is about helping the most important people living on this planet: our children. As adults, we can make a huge positive impact on their future, not only in the ‘time-tested’ traditional way of being good disciplinarians but also by helping our youth prepare for adulthood by acquiring self-discipline.

Kids today feel the same types of frustrations and stress as adults, only for different reasons. There is just too much going on in their lives with schoolwork, family, friends, and all sorts of activities. How can they effectively manage these activities and prepare for their future? Do you honestly think that just arming kids with a college degree will guarantee them a rewarding life? Not a chance! Scholastic aptitude is less than half the battle for excelling in life. Most kids will still not be prepared to take on the challenges of adulthood when they turn 18 because our society doesn’t provide enough guidance and mentoring for them. To state it bluntly, kids are being poorly prepared to handle the challenges of adulthood.

All of us are continuously challenged to do more with less in our careers and personal lives. Our children are faced with the same challenge, and we need to help them acquire discipline so they can successfully meet that challenge. Adults must step up to the plate and become Discipline Mentors to give our children the ultimate gift --- the gift of discipline.

How many adults do you know who have failed to fulfill their dreams, or have expectations based on hype? Self-help books and seminars on success are only part of the equation required to teach discipline to achieve our dreams and exceed our expectations. Plain old discipline is a simple concept that is hard to live daily, but absolutely essential to success. Many people all over the world know what it takes to become disciplined and understand and agree to the principles behind it. Yet even these people can sometimes barely muster up enough motivation to survive life’s daily challenges. Most of us need a helping hand to get over the hump and if we adults are struggling, consider the plight of our youth!

This book is designed to help adults teach kids to acquire discipline so that they can meet life’s basic challenges and further, achieve their dreams. My goal is to teach as many adults as humanly possible to become Discipline Mentors to teach the key ingredient for success. If our youth want to be in control of their destiny and accomplish more than most people can only dream of, then they need to embrace discipline.

The first part of the book highlights the four levels of discipline, how we define Discipline Mentoring, a step-by-step Discipline Mentoring Program, and the role and characteristics of a Discipline Mentor. The second half of the book addresses activities to build discipline skills in younger children and children with disabilities.

Although some kids may not adopt the power of discipline, we have a responsibility to Discipline Mentor the ones that really want to excel in life.

About this title

About the Author:

Harris Kern is the author or over 40 books, and one of the world's leading personal and organization performance mentors. His passion is to help people excel in their professional and personal life by developing their self-discipline skills to combat the top issues: severe procrastination, poor time management, ineffective goal management, lack of focus, no sense of urgency and lack of motivation. He also helps individuals improve their leadership and EQ skills (communication, relationship management and inter-personal). Mr. Kern is recognized as the foremost authority on providing practical guidance for solving management issues and challenges. He has devoted over 30 years helping professionals build competitive organizations. His client list reads like a who's who of American and International Business: Standard and Poor's, GE, The Weather Channel, NEWS Corporation, Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminal (HACTL), among dozens of other Fortune500 and Global 2000 companies. Mr. Kern is the founder and driving force behind the Enterprise Computing Institute (www.harriskern.com) and the best-selling series of Information Technology (IT) books published by Prentice Hall/Pearson. (www.disciplinementor.com) (www.disciplinetheorganization.com)

About this edition

• Publisher: Authorhouse
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1420863207
• ISBN 13: 9781420863208
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304