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Discipline: Mentoring Children For Success

Harris Kern, Dawn Jensen, Mayra Muniz

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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 the Author

Harris Kern

Harris Kern is the author of 26 books. He is one of the world’s leading self-discipline and peak performance experts. He is a frequent speaker and seminar leader at business and IT management conferences. His passion is to help people excel in their career and personal life by guiding them on how to acquire discipline. He pioneered the Discipline Mentoring Program™ and IT Performance Mentoring Program™. Harris is the author of:

 

DISCIPLINE: Six Steps To Unleashing Your Hidden Potential

DISCIPLINE: Training The Mind To Manage Your Life

DISCIPLINE: Mentoring Children For Success

 

Harris is also recognized as the foremost authority on providing practical guidance for solving IT management issues and challenges. He has devoted over 20 years helping IT professionals build competitive IT organizations.

 

Harris is the founder and driving force behind the Harris Kern Enterprise Computing Institute (www.harriskern.com) and the best-selling Enterprise Computing Institute series of books published by Prentice Hall. As founder of the Enterprise Computing Institute, he has brought together the industry''s leading minds to publish "how-to" textbooks on the critical issues the IT industry faces. The series includes titles such as:

 

IT Services,

IT Organization,

CIO Wisdom, among others.

 

Harris introduces a formula of success for the IT professional. His vision brings the world of IT and self-discipline together to properly address the people issues in IT. His goal is to arm IT professionals with the right tool to empower them to become more productive not only in their career but also for their personal life as well. His latest “discipline oriented” book is titled IT People: Doing More With Less.

 

 

Dawn Jensen

Dawn Jensen has been a Marketing professional in the high-tech world for the last 15 years, working at NeXT Computer, Strategic Mapping, and Sun Microsystems, Inc.  She has an unparalleled ability to organize and energize and an innate talent for making seemingly complex things simple—skills that have been invaluable in the development of this book.

 

Dawn spent her childhood as an expatriate in London, England. She has a B.A. in English from the University of California in Santa Barbara.  She now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband, son and daughter, and spends her non-work time mentoring her children to exceed their dreams.

 

 

Mayra Muniz

Mayra Muniz has spent the past several years affiliated with Prentice Hall’s acclaimed series: Harris Kern’s Enterprise Computing Institute as executive assistant to Harris Kern, the founder. Her contributions as an editor, publicist, graphics designer, events manager, and marketing specialist have played a major role in the success of the series. Mayra has also contributed as a co-author in the book titled IT Production Services published by Prentice Hall.
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Children must acquire discipline in order to manage their myriad activities, set and achieve goals, and be successful in their lives.  But few kids today are being equipped with the necessary tools to make discipline a cornerstone of their daily routine.  And few adults know specifically how to help them.  The third in the series, this book articulates both the why and the how of Discipline for children.

 

Practicing daily discipline is an art and takes a lot of work.  But the rewards are well worth the sacrifices along the way.  Discipline applied with love is the "magic" ingredient that allows children to stick with their values in the face of peer pressure, build their self-esteem

through unprecedented achievement, and ultimately be successful in their lives.  Adults have the ability to make success a tangible reality for children if they are willing to teach the most difficult skill of all --- Discipline.

 

Written for adults who love their children and truly want to mentor them in the art of self-discipline, this book clearly illustrates what discipline is and what discipline is not.  A step by step guide to mentoring, actionable ideas for teaching discipline, and charts to track your "protégé’s" progress are all included.  And while many may think discipline mentoring is only for older children, the book also covers how to teach the fundamentals to younger children and children with disabilities.

 

Discipline is the tool we all need to continuously improve ourselves --- and discipline can be learned.  We want our children to know they are loved, and to be happy, productive, and successful. With this book we now have the roadmap to mentor our children to achieve more than they ever imagined.


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