Susan Cain’s Quiet Power: The Secret Strengths of Introverts Highlights the Superpowers of Quiet Kids
It can be confusing and stressful for a parent when your child acts differently than you did as a child. He may be quiet and reserved, or she may hold back in social situations, rather than jumping in to engage with other children. Author Susan Cain knows that being quiet doesn’t necessarily mean something’s wrong with a child—sometimes a kid is quiet just because that’s who he or she is an introvert at heart. If that’s the case, the more you embrace a child’s introverted nature, the happier he or she will be. Because ultimately, isn’t that what we all want for our children—for them to feel comfortable being exactly who they really are?
Quiet Power: The Secret Strengths of Introverts
Hardcover $17.99
Quiet Power: The Secret Strengths of Introverts
By
Susan Cain
,
Gregory Mone
,
Erica Moroz
Illustrator
Grant Snider
Hardcover $17.99
Cain’s new book, Quiet Power: The Secret Strengths of Introverts, encourages kids, teens, and adults to embrace their own, their friends’, or their children’s quieter side, and to remember that the world is filled with all sorts of personalities, each of which is important. Along with teaching them that it is ok to be a little on the more reserved side, Quiet Power can help introverted children learn to be comfortable in their own skin by showing them examples of actual kids who have made their marks in their own quiet ways.
As she does in the adult version of her book, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, Cain works to change the way we see introverts, as well as the way introverts see themselves. “Sometimes we’re easy to spot,” writes Cain. “We’re the ones curled up on the sofa with a book or an iPad on our lap instead of surrounded by people.” Introverts often feel at their best in a more mellow environment and tend to need sufficient time alone, away from crowds.
Quiet Power is specifically about introverts living in the kids’ world—it covers everything from school and extracurricular activities, to family life and friendship. Being an introvert during adolescence can be especially challenging, even though introverts make up one-third to half the population, because extroverts are the ones who often seem to thrive most in school or public situations. But there’s nothing wrong with wanting to work alone rather than in a group, thinking before speaking, being a little different in social settings, and needing time alone to unwind. Although introverts may feel like they are the only one around, it turns out they have plenty of company—including such notables as Albert Einstein and Emma Watson.
Cain’s new book, Quiet Power: The Secret Strengths of Introverts, encourages kids, teens, and adults to embrace their own, their friends’, or their children’s quieter side, and to remember that the world is filled with all sorts of personalities, each of which is important. Along with teaching them that it is ok to be a little on the more reserved side, Quiet Power can help introverted children learn to be comfortable in their own skin by showing them examples of actual kids who have made their marks in their own quiet ways.
As she does in the adult version of her book, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, Cain works to change the way we see introverts, as well as the way introverts see themselves. “Sometimes we’re easy to spot,” writes Cain. “We’re the ones curled up on the sofa with a book or an iPad on our lap instead of surrounded by people.” Introverts often feel at their best in a more mellow environment and tend to need sufficient time alone, away from crowds.
Quiet Power is specifically about introverts living in the kids’ world—it covers everything from school and extracurricular activities, to family life and friendship. Being an introvert during adolescence can be especially challenging, even though introverts make up one-third to half the population, because extroverts are the ones who often seem to thrive most in school or public situations. But there’s nothing wrong with wanting to work alone rather than in a group, thinking before speaking, being a little different in social settings, and needing time alone to unwind. Although introverts may feel like they are the only one around, it turns out they have plenty of company—including such notables as Albert Einstein and Emma Watson.
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Paperback $20.00
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
By Susan Cain
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Paperback $20.00
Cain believes that introverts can learn to use their “superpowers” (like listening, thinking and focusing on the self) to flourish. Quiet Power also shows how others have found success outside of their initial comfort zones. Each chapter ends with a few helpful strategies or tips that kids can easily put into action, such as preparing notes to help them enter class discussions, establishing a time limit for social outings, and setting up a personal space. There’s even a guide for adults at the end of the book, to help parents and teachers better understand the needs of introverted children. All in all, this is a great read for both children and adults, introverts and extroverts alike.
As Cain writes of her new book, “It won’t teach you how to turn yourself into someone else. Instead, it will teach you to use the marvelous qualities and skills you already have. And then…look out, world!”
Quiet Power: The Secret Strengths of Introverts is in stores now.
Cain believes that introverts can learn to use their “superpowers” (like listening, thinking and focusing on the self) to flourish. Quiet Power also shows how others have found success outside of their initial comfort zones. Each chapter ends with a few helpful strategies or tips that kids can easily put into action, such as preparing notes to help them enter class discussions, establishing a time limit for social outings, and setting up a personal space. There’s even a guide for adults at the end of the book, to help parents and teachers better understand the needs of introverted children. All in all, this is a great read for both children and adults, introverts and extroverts alike.
As Cain writes of her new book, “It won’t teach you how to turn yourself into someone else. Instead, it will teach you to use the marvelous qualities and skills you already have. And then…look out, world!”
Quiet Power: The Secret Strengths of Introverts is in stores now.