I think everyone will agree that these are important core values, and most parents strive to instill them in their kids. You aren’t born talented or intelligent, and you are always able to improve on something you’re not good at. When the author’s terminally ill mother moved into a hospice, her family hoped the dying woman would receive the care and support she needed.

So the number one thing [parents] can do is listen, and then they can solicit their [kids'] opinions. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

Growing up in the 50s and in a religious household, sexism was baked into her parent’s child rearing philosophy. Do you prepare activities for them to do in the car because you don’t want them to get bored while staring out the window? Esther Wojcicki is a journalist, educator and the mother of two of Silicon Valley’s most successful female entrepreneurs, Susan and Anne Wojcicki. It’s an interesting book with lots of individual parts that succeed, but I’m not sure it works as a whole. She's also the mother of three highly successful daughters: Susan Wojcicki, the CEO of of YouTube, Anne Wojcicki, who is the CEO of 23andMe, and Janet Wojcicki, a professor in the medical school at the University of California, San Francsico.

It wasn’t terrible, and I got most of the way through, but the incessant name dropping and self-aggrandizing was too much for me to take. But, to me it was less of a parenting guide, and more of a celebration of her successes as a parent and teacher. She also needs to do some fact-checking because, at one point, she tells a story about leaving her high-school-aged kids alone for a weekend in 1994—when they would have been in their twenties. However, she repeats herself a lot, and it feels very lacking in terms of any understanding of a final destination.The end result is that finding the actual new, unique insights in this book is just way too much work.

I find that they are either written by people who aren't parents or people who tell you there's one right way. The very long personal introduction from the author felt unnecessary as did the many personal anecdotes, which is why I dropped my review to 3 stars.It’s no mystery that abusive parents were themselves abused, and naturally those with good parents try to emulate them. In essence, she’s advocating for treating children as if they are independent, free-thinking beings that need steering in life, rather than dominance. At our worst, we are the indifferent hospice staff; at our best, we are Anne and her heartfelt commitment to her grandmother. This “parenting” book doesn’t give you any cheap advice or simple lessons and that’s why I appreciated this book, because raising a successful human means demonstrating an example and living up to TRICK values yourself aaaaalll life long! In an effort to avoid her father’s mistakes, she constantly taught her daughters to exert control over their own lives by making choices.