How to Raise Successful People: Simple Lessons for Radical Results

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TRICK is an acronym for Trust, Respect, Independence, Collaboration, and Kindness ー the five fundamental values that "help us all become capable, successful people. Where her brother was told he could grow up to be anything he wanted, she was told women belonged in the kitchen as housewives. Growing up in an orthodox Jewish family in the 1950s, the author experienced her fair share of damaging parental behavior. There was a little more acknowledgement that sometimes punishment is necessary, which I felt was missing from the first two sections. And while I feel like I have been pretty conscious about how we are raising our kids, it is still hard as hell, and so I wanted to dive into a highly rated parenting book to see what more I can learn.

I love that it offers a collaborative approach to raising kids in a way that builds them up to define success for themselves, trust in themselves, take risks, and care for humanity. It is part memoir that reads easily as it is chock full of trajectory changing events that shaped her worldview. Do you constantly do things for them because you don’t have time to wait for them to figure it out on their own, or you can’t stand their whining when they don’t get it right away?

Then we talk about these things, and you try to include some of their ideas, with some of your ideas. She also points out that many parents raise their children with the idea that their successes are a direct reflection of the parents themselves, and she argues this is completely unrealistic. Obviously I’m biased, but I think BTNT will be one of the best personal finance books once published.

How to Raise Successful People offers essential lessons for raising, educating, and managing people to their highest potential.

It's great when you're in Palo Alto, in Silicon Valley and your schools have the resources and such. The word carries such negative connotations (turn a trick, play a trick) that it casts a pall over what is an approach to positive parenting. You have to bring your children up in an environment where they understand that mistakes will be forgiven. Winner of numerous pedagogical awards such as the 2002 California Teacher of the Year by the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing, and the 2011 Charles O’Malley Award from Columbia Scholastic Press, Wojcicki, known affectionately as Woj by her friends, is also the mother of 3 exceptional and accomplished daughters.