"Many parents I meet," says John Croyle, "feel discouraged and defeated in their relationships with their children. They want to be good parents, but they don’t know where to find that ‘something extra’ within. This book is meant to give you some positive principles that will help you find that. Then you in turn can bring out the winner in your child."
Bringing Out the Winner in Your Child challenges parents to examine their skills, recognize their inadequacies, and love their children enough to make the changes needed to provide a stable, peaceful home. Croyle’s life is an inspiring story of an All-American defensive end whose love for children prompted his coach, the legendary Bear Bryant, to advise him to "forget about pro football and follow your dream."
In 1974 Croyle founded Big Oak Ranch as a home for abused, neglected, or abandoned children. Since then it has been a refuge and a natural, loving environment for more than 1,500 children from ages six to twenty-one.
Croyle’s practical guide to raising children encourages parents to develop skills as guardian, disciplinarian, provider, and friend so they can provide their children with love, stability, protection, and wisdom. His wide-ranging experience is the basis for his many lessons in dealing with typical parenting problems. Croyle offers such valuable insights as how children listen with their eyes (not their ears), how children and adults speak different languages, how realistic boundaries can affect children in positive ways, and how discipline with love, not anger, creates an atmosphere of growth and trust.
His daughter, Reagan, was a four-year member of the women’s varsity basketball team at the University of Alabama. Croyle’s son, Brodie, was the top-rated high school quarterback in America when he graduated in 1990, and in 2002 he became the starting quarterback of the Alabama Crimson Tide. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
JOHN CROYLE is a graduate of the University of Alabama, an All-American football star, and founder of the Big Oak Ranch. His story has been featured in Sports Illustrated, People, Reader’s Digest, and Focus on the Family magazine, and he has made guest appearances on NBC’s Today, CNN News, ABC Sports’ Half-Time Report, Robert Schuller’s Hour of Power, and The 700 Club. He lives near Gadsden, Alabama. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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坦白说,这本书的语言风格非常直率、甚至带着点犀利的批判性,完全没有那些空泛的、只会说漂亮话的育儿书籍的影子。它不迎合读者的期待,反而像一位经验老道的导师,直接指出了当前教育环境中的诸多弊病和家长们普遍存在的认知误区。阅读过程中,我好几次因为被戳中痛点而停下来深思,不得不承认,作者的观察入木三分。书中大量的案例分析,并非是那种经过美化的成功故事,而是非常贴近我们日常生活中遇到的真实困境,那种带着泥土气息的细节描述,让人感觉无比真实可信。我欣赏作者敢于挑战权威和固有观念的勇气,这种不妥协的态度,使得全书充满了思想的张力。它不是一本读完就束之高阁的速食读物,更像是一剂猛药,需要读者有足够的心理准备去接受那些不那么“悦耳”的真相,但正是这种直击核心的表达,才显得这本书的价值无比珍贵。
评分我一直对那种将复杂问题过度简化的书籍感到不耐烦,它们总是试图用几个简单的口诀来解决千变万化的人性问题。然而,这本书完全避开了这种肤浅的做法。它似乎毫不费力地在复杂的心理学、社会学和儿童发展理论之间架起了一座桥梁,将原本高深的理论,用极为生活化的语言重新包装和阐释,但这种“包装”并没有牺牲其学术的严谨性。我感受到了作者背后扎实的理论功底,他并非仅仅停留在“怎么做”的层面,而是深入挖掘了“为什么会这样”的根源。在某些涉及到决策权和自主性培养的章节中,我明显能体会到作者引用了前沿的认知科学研究成果,但呈现出来的方式却丝毫没有学术论文的枯燥感。这本书的深度在于,它要求读者不仅仅是接受信息,更是要参与到思考的过程中去,去重新审视自己过往的经验,是一种“重构式”的阅读体验。
评分这本书最让我惊喜的一点是其跨文化的视野和对个体差异的极致尊重。在许多主流的育儿指南中,往往会不自觉地流露出某种文化优越感或单一的成功模板,但这本书里完全没有这种倾向。它似乎在不断提醒读者,每一个孩子都是一个独特的宇宙,其成长轨迹不应被任何预设的框架所定义。我注意到作者在阐述某些观点时,会引用来自不同文化背景的例子进行佐证或对比,这使得全书的视野无比开阔,极大地消解了我内心深处可能存在的地域性偏见。更重要的是,它强调的不是如何“制造”一个完美的孩子,而是如何帮助孩子发现和发展其内在的驱动力,这种赋权给孩子而非控制孩子的理念,是这本书在我心中分量最重的部分。它不是教我如何成为一个“控制者”,而是教我如何成为一个“引导者”和“见证者”,这彻底改变了我对“养育”的理解。
评分这本精装书拿到手的时候,我就被它厚实的质感和典雅的封面设计吸引住了。装帧工艺无可挑剔,纸张的触感很棒,阅读体验极佳,那种沉甸甸的书卷气,是现在很多电子阅读器无法替代的。我特别喜欢它字体排版的布局,清晰且留白得当,长时间阅读也不会感到眼睛疲劳,这对于我这种需要细细品味文字的人来说,简直是福音。书的整体设计风格偏向传统而又不失现代感,封面上的插图虽然抽象,却透着一种力量感,似乎预示着内在蕴含的深刻哲理。我翻阅了目录和前言,感觉作者在构建这本书的知识体系上花费了大量心血,结构安排得井井有条,逻辑推演严谨得像一部教科书,但文字表述却充满了人情味,让人愿意沉浸其中,慢慢探索。我期待着深入阅读后,能从中获得新的视角和启发,毕竟,能以如此精良的工艺出版的书,内容想必也经得起时间的考验。它摆在书架上,本身就是一件赏心悦目的艺术品,让人忍不住想时常去触摸和翻阅。
评分这本书的叙事节奏把握得极其巧妙,它不像传统书籍那样线性推进,而是采用了大量跳跃式的视角转换,一会儿是宏观的教育哲学探讨,一会儿又瞬间聚焦到某个微小的家庭互动场景。这种叙事上的“碎步快跑”,反而让我的注意力始终高度集中,生怕错过任何一个微妙的转折点。尤其是一些章节的过渡,简直堪称一绝,前一段还在讨论宏大的社会背景,下一秒就自然地引出了某个具体的情感冲突,这种流畅的切换,显示出作者非凡的文字驾驭能力和对主题的深刻理解。我发现,作者在构建论点时,非常擅长使用对比和反衬的手法,通过呈现极端的例子来凸显中间地带的平衡之美,这种辩证的思维方式,极大地拓宽了我看待问题的边界。总的来说,阅读的过程更像是一场智力上的探险,充满了惊喜和不断“啊哈”的瞬间。
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