RAISING KIDS TO DO HARD THINGS

Don't let your kids settle for “good enough.” A Christian home-schooling pioneer and his adult son, co-author of the young adult bestseller Do Hard Things, advocate a revolutionary approach to parenting.

You probably already know how challenging it can be to make your kids do hard things. But when you raise your kids to be self-motivated—from the heart—your job as a parent gets way easier and their lives become way more exciting.

As the father of seven, Gregg Harris has seen this prove true in the lives of his kids, and in Raising Kids to Do Hard Things, he and his adult son Brett show how you can raise self-motivated kids who embrace challenge and find delight in preparing for productive, meaningful lives in the real world.

The road-tested principles in these pages will help you

• Make learning a delight, not a drudgery
• Raise producers, not just consumers
• Encourage creativity by limiting distractions
• Launch your children into meaningful adult lives

For parents of children aged preschool and up, and with a chapter devoted specifically to the tween and teen years, this guidebook will equip you to raise kids who take initiative at home, at school, and in their community.

Gregg Harris was the founder of Household of Faith, a home-based experiment in church reform, and director of the Noble Institute for Leadership Development, a nonprofit educational organization. He and his late wife, Sono, raised seven children and were pioneers in the Christian home-schooling movement around the world. He lives in Portland, Oregon, where he runs a popular terrarium shop with his youngest son.

Brett Harris is co-author, with his brother Alex, of the bestselling book Do Hard Things: A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations. They maintain the high-traffic website The Rebelution. He is the founder of the Young Writers Workshop and is married to his best friend, Ana. They live in Rapid City, South Dakota