Product Description

For home, school, and play-simple, insightful strategies to help each child develop essential life skills.

Everyone has a natural thinking style-a set of preferences that helps with relating to the rest of the world. Using the latest research into how we think and learn, Lanna Nakone has divided children into four groups: penguins (maintainers), dogs (harmonizers), horses (innovators), and lions (prioritizers).

For each type, an organized world is a safe haven. In this fresh, practical, and insightful guide, Lanna Nakone gives parents a new way to understand and encourage children's thinking styles, sensory preferences, gender, and personality tendencies to help them tailor their child's environment to make it a safe, more learning-friendly place. Stories, illustrations, and concrete step-by-step instructions show readers how to give children the support they need to reach their full potential.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #744884 in Books
• Published on: 2006-04-04
• Format: Bargain Price
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

About the Author
Lanna Nakone is a professional organizer and consultant whose pioneering method is based on the latest research in brain types. Her business, Organized World, boasts clients that include busy family households, top corporations, and successful executives. A member of the National Association of Professional Organizers (NAPO), Nakone leads workshops across the country, and is the author of Organizing for Your Brain Type.

Customer Reviews

Very Insightful and Easy to Read
I found this book extremely insightful and it was easy to spot our thinking styles even with out the test. There were some questions that were hard to answer but no different than any other personality type assesment. I do think this would be hard to use for a parent of a young child. My childern were 4 and 6 when I took the assesments. I made several changes to how my children's rooms were set up based suggestions in the book and I feel that it has made quite a difference. Does that mean that everything is neat and clutter free?? No but when it is time to clean up and put things away, it is much more condusive to their style.

Although it is true that this book does not go very deep into how to make your thinking style work for you or give specific plans for transforming your childs life with this information, that is ok. I have read so many books like that and then felt disappointed because the "step by step" was too much to follow so I did not follow through. This book give examples and leaves you with a basic knowledge to put some idealogical changes into play. The book is a short and entertaining read and worth the money and time.

Great info
I am a Professional Organizer and this is an outstanding book. It really helps you get into the minds of little ones and help them make the most of their own natural abilities.

Very dissapointed
First of all it was EXTREAMLY difficult to answer the quiz questions for my kids. Many questions dont even apply to our lifestyle so I had to "guess" and when that was inconclusive, I had to ask my children all of these hypothetical questions that they themselves seemed unsure of how to answer. In the end I do think I have figured it out but it was a very difficult process. Also, in the end, I have no way to apply what little info I have gathered. In part due to lack of specific instruction but also in part due to our results in different areas leading to contradictory statements.

For example, from one portion of test results it says that my son needs lots of personal things around, and things will seem cluttered but this will make him feel secure. Yet in scoring another area of his traits it tells me to keep things to a minimum for him...keeping things well uncluttered?

The fact that you need to figure out your own style as well was a no brainer for me; I spotted my style instantly. Note that I didnt bother with the quiz though, all the anctidotal stories in a particular style fit me as though I could have written them myself. (this was NOT so easy to spot with my "younger end of the spectrum" children though)

Then the REAL dissapointment set in! According to this books info on my style, I basicly need to have "someone else" handle many of the details! I am a stay at home/homeschooling mom, who is going to handle it for me????? Obviously I purchased this looking for ideas or soloutions, not for advice to hand it over to someone else as to not drive myself crazy trying to be something I will never be. (paraphrasing according to the book)

Oh, and on top of all of this, the last section pairing your style with your childs style for methods to use dosent even bother to give ANY suggestions at all if you and any of your childrens style happen to be the same, which is exactly the case with myself and my oldest child. The book only pairs the parenting style with OTHER styles. No parent learning style is compaired with a child of the same style.

The books advice for my style paired with one of my kids who actually has a different style? Other than telling me things about how our personalities mesh that I already know, it mentions us as "the blind leading the blind." Okay, I can understand the analogy but how about show me a better way rather than tell me to lean on someone else? I dont have that luxury. Kind of the reason I purchased the book.

It seems to me that if you end up being my style, you will have questions in your head leading you to purchase her OTHER book for adults. The reviews on that book have similar complaints to the ones here in my review.

There must be a better book on this...