Fighter Pilot Parent
Leading Your Kids with Lessons from the Cockpit
by Brick Conners
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Pub Date Aug 20 2019 | Archive Date Sep 30 2019
Greenleaf Book Group | River Grove Books
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Description
Lead your most important team (your kids) with integrity, honor, and love.
There are no bad teams (i.e., kids). There are only less-than-perfect leaders (i.e., parents). So says former fighter pilot and parent of four, retired US Navy Captain “Brick” Conners. Conners believes good leadership drives every successful outcome, and good parenting is no different. As a Navy Strike Fighter Pilot, Brick amassed over 4500 hours and over 1000 carrier landings during multiple combat deployments. So he understands all too well the critical importance of leadership in enabling those under his command to take off and return safely. Every parent wants the same: to have our children take off into the world and its adventures, but to return home safely at the end of the day.
Conners links thrilling life-and-death experiences in leadership, adversity, and performance to practices and takeaways that will guide parents, grandparents, coaches, military personnel, and anyone else who wants to raise, develop, and lead children and young people. Through tools gleaned from his own experience as a pilot, parent, and coach, Conners shows how we can redefine our own leadership skills and develop the same in children, so that they are equipped to deal with the unavoidable hazards of growing up. As parents, if we’re not happy with how we’ve handled parenting challenges in the past, we will find ways to reevaluate and alter our course; if we have acted on values and beliefs that were not always ideal, we will learn how to take a different approach: one that can lead our children to extraordinary trajectories, increased success, and lifelong happiness.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781632992291 |
| PRICE | $15.95 (USD) |
Featured Reviews
Jelena N, Reviewer
"As a parent, have you ever been anxious about your child venturing away from the safety and security of home?" This is how the book starts, and yes, as a parent I do have this same feeling. Will I ever be able to protect my child from all the horrors in the world? Will I raise him well? Will I be able to teach him the values my parents thought me? All these are the same anxieties all parents feel. This book is giving a new perspective from a point of view of a former Navy commander. Never have I ever before read a parenting guide written by an military representative. And yes, it gives some insights, gives a new view, but unfortunately nothing groundbreaking new. This is not a bad book, let me clear that, it is a well written, understandable even for us who don't have a clue how the military works. It is just that it was not my cup of tea. However, I will recommend it for every parent to read, because in this world today, we need every guide we can get to raise children into great human beings.
Cristie U, Book Trade Professional
This book was filled with great advice on becoming a better parent in terms of being a stronger leader. The connection between leadership skills and successful parenting is perfectly laid out in this book. It is an interesting approach to parenting.
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