New Book Offers Insight on Raising the Next Generation of Strong, Capable Women Through Success in Sports and Academics
Drs. Don and Magy Martin, authors of Finding Grit, have provided a timely how-to guide for parents, with evidence-based advice and tips for raising daughters and helping them to become independent, successful women.
PITTSBURGH, July 10, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Female equity and empowerment… The women's movement… Girl power… Today's headlines continuously remind us that the time for raising strong, successful women is now. How do today's girls become tomorrow's leaders? With grit. As women's rights & female empowerment have become part of the mainstream conversation, this notion of Finding Grit is more relevant than ever. In their new parenting book, authors Don and Magy Martin define grit as "the ability to survive difficulty and failure and learn how to achieve… the art of cultivating resilience." How do we raise our daughters to embrace this resilience and use it to grow into strong, capable women?
"We want to provide you with a way to help you enjoy watching your daughter grow up to be a healthy and successful woman," the Martins explain. "It is time to reclaim your role as a leader and model for her future. It is time to be proud as a parent as you see your daughter grow into a successful athlete and scholar. It is time to enjoy the responsibility of being a parent of a wonderful daughter. It is time to start."
Using real-world experience and years of professional research, the Martins have put together a how-to guide for parents who want to help their daughters get to the forefront of both athletics and academics. This book is a boot camp for ingraining the skills, attitude and fortitude that empower girls to become leaders in their chosen fields as adults. From what chores to assign a 3-year-old in order to teach them responsibility and respect to helping parents understand the ins and outs of the collegiate athletic recruitment and scholarship process – Finding Grit is about finding a unique place in this world for your daughter and the journey you must both take to get there.
Author Bio:
Dr. Don Martin currently directs the nationally ranked School Counseling graduate program at Youngstown State University and is a neuropsychologist in private practice. Dr. Magy Martin is a faculty member in the Counseling Psychology doctoral program at Walden University and has extensive experience in the public schools as a reading teacher, principal, and associate superintendent for over 30 years. Both Don and Magy are noted researchers in the field of counseling and psychology and have been training clinicians in the field of psychotherapy for decades, as well as presenting their research worldwide.
Don and Magy have raised two daughters who were Division 1 scholarship athletes. Both their daughters earned doctoral degrees in psychology. In writing Finding Grit, the Martins wanted to dispel the notion that most parenting books are simply personal advice and rarely effective. Their hope is that by sharing evidence-based practices that reflect today's parenting dilemmas that readers will receive both the clarity and help they need in raising their daughters to make a difference in a complex world.
Finding Grit is available now through the authors' website, www.findinggrit.org, as well as Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble. Join the Finding Grit community at https://www.facebook.com/RaiseDaughtersWithGrit/.
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