Woj is a genius

as an expectant parent and trainee teacher I am trying to learn as much as possible about how to support and inspire children to be their best selves. The ideas in this book (the TRICK model: Trust, Respect, Independence, Collaboration and Kindness) not only resonate with a desire to raise empowered, compassionate children, they also collaborate what a lot of research shows is most effective in education. Project based learning which requires students to use a range of skills across multiple domains rather than rote memorisation or teaching to the test. Giving childen responsibility and independance, and encouraging them to reflect on their successes, failures and impact on others promotes good metacognition (thinking about thinking) and encourages them to better manage their own learning and develop problem solving and resilience.

And everything always comes back to kindness, and teaching children to always think about how what they do impacts others, and how they can help others, can only be a positive in a society that often pushes a sense of individualism on children, often to the detriment of our mental health in the long term.

every parent or teacher should read this

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A little repetitive

I enjoyed this book in most part, although I found it a little long and repetitive at times.

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Worth a read

I was glad I persevered with this, it could have benefitted from less anecdotes about her children and more concentrated sentences.
But if you can ignore what sometimes feels like gloating over how ‘successful’ her children have been in their careers (although sometimes I thought it was a bit down to who they knew), then there is a lot of great advice.
The advice covers a very broad area of parenting. But overall I have come away with the message I think the author works hard to give, and I will be looking for ways to let my children be more independant, and encourage them to help others.
I felt ‘T.R.I.C.K’ was over used as an abbreviation as I often couldn’t remember what it stands for so I will put it here: Trust, Respect, Independence, Collaboration, Kindness’.
This is the core values for ‘raising successful people’.
The author is very impressive and it is half autobiographical and half ‘how to’, which was fine by me. She has written a book her way, like she has lived her life her way, and I admire her guts and refusal to conform for the sake of conforming. I appreciate all she has done and for spreading her message. A lot of things happen because that is the way they have always been done. Here is a person who evaluates; is this how we should still be doing it? And then does something about it :-)
Useful for teachers and home educators as well as parents of all ages of children.

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Awesome and inspiring

Not overly enamoured by the narrator but the content of this book....life changing. Absolutely loved it.

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Amazing book

This is one of best books I’ve listened to in recent times. This lady is unreal and her advice is soooo simple and easy to implement. A fantastic listen, you won’t be disappointed

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Brilliant sensible advice

take the TRICK method and we can start a parenting and education revolution! Read this book and pass it on!!

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Simple lessons but powerfully put together

This is a relatively simple premise - give your children responsibility and trust rather than over proactive parenting. The reason it is powerful is that is has vivid characters all the way through the book who Ester inspired along the way and admits fallibly too. Good read for anyone involved in raising children.

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A must read for anyone trying to live in this world

This is not just a book for parents or teachers. This is a book that applies to everyone who has anything to do with any other people. Thank you.

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a must read.

great advise, good narration. ill be using TRICK at home and at work. great for parents, business owners and teachers

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Inspiring in places

There are moments that are inspiring in the book and are useful but there’s some moments that feel redundant. Additionally, I don’t like the dual audience of a teacher/parent.

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