Parenting to Your Strengths

Leslie Snyder, PhD

A new book · coming soon

Your strengths far outweigh your stretches.™

A parenting book for people who are tired of parenting books. Written by a clinical psychologist with 25 years of experience, and illustrated throughout.

I can handle this. what if I get it wrong?
Sample illustration · final artwork in progress
Parenting to Your Strengths

The Book

Nine chapters, illustrated throughout, with quizzes, stories and short exercises. Read the premise, meet the characters and see sample pages.

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Workshops

Small group sessions with Dr. Snyder, online and in Los Angeles, for parents working through this alongside other parents.

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Parenting to Your Strengths

About Leslie

Twenty-five years as a clinical psychologist with children, teens and families, and where this book came from.

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The idea behind the book

From SOS to FYI

Every parent has strengths. Almost nobody leads with them. The book is a journey from the place most of us parent from, to the place we could be parenting from instead.

SOS Strength · Obstacle · Stretch
FYI Find Your IntuiSense™

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Upcoming

Workshops

Dates for the next round are being set now. Join the list and you will hear before they are announced publicly.

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Naming your own strengths, and using them where your child's stretches show up. Online.

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For parents of twice-exceptional children. Online and in person in Los Angeles.

About the author

Leslie Snyder, PhD

A licensed clinical psychologist with more than 25 years of experience with children, teens and families, specializing in twice-exceptional and gifted young people, ADHD, executive functioning, anxiety and high-functioning ASD.

The strategy at the center of this book, Using Your Strengths to Support Your Stretches™, came out of that work and turned out to apply to every parent she met.

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