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What Makes Kids Kick
by Fran Kick
What Makes Kids Kick is the first in a series of books by Fran Kick about the Millennial Generation. Designed as a compass of thought for use by educators, youth group leaders, parents, coaches and others who are currently working with today’s postmodern kids. The book provides a framework though which to view today’s kids by exploring themany influences and inspirational factors that are affecting the Millennial Generation (born 1980–2000±).
Fran Kick has combined a comprehensive collection of studies, surveys, research articles and news stories with his own anecdotes, gathered over two decades of traveling across the country talking and working with kids and the adults in their lives. As entertaining as it is informative, What Makes Kids Kick will get you looking at and thinking about this generation of kids in a new way. It will help you raise, teach, manage, lead and mentor a more self-motivated generation of kids who will have the attitude and skills necessary to KICK IT IN & TAKE THE LEAD!
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“Fran’s broadly generational approach to today’s kids is very nicely executed. While he’s familiar with youth up close and has a voracious appetite for interesting facts, he also sees the big picture. I learned a lot. There are things in here that I didn’t know and I make a living doing this!”
Neil Howe
Co-author of Generations and Millennials Rising
“What fantastic books!!! I gave my sister, who is a high school counselor in Scottsdale, the What Makes Kids Kick@Home one. Your graphics are always so stunning and they are on this book as well. I really enjoyed What Makes Kids KICK. Positive, well thought-out and researched, lots of good ideas, fun to read, plus great resources. Covers all the ground of Millennials Rising and more, but in a more accessible way. It’s a home run!”
Claire Raines
Author of Connecting Generations and Generations at Work
“What Makes Kids KICK is filled with good advice for coaches, educators, parents and anyone else who works with kids. Fran Kick presents a thoughtful and research informed approach to engaging youth, packaged in a lively and vital way. His work recognizes not only that getting kids involved is beneficial, but that making it fun and meaningful is essential to making it happen.”
Richard Ryan, Ph.D.
Co-editor of the Handbook of Self-Determination Research
“Fran Kick not only knows what makes kids kick, he understands what kids today need to be the kind of self-motivated, self-reliant everyday heroes the world will soon need them to be. Helping today’s generation of children to think for themselves demands a new adult-child level of communication that’s positive, unambiguous, and constructive. This book offers parents, teachers, and anyone else who works with today’s youth a clearer perspective of the strategies and skills most helpful in diminishing an over-dependence on the approval-driven choices of others. Guiding a more internally directed generation of kids who won’t fall victim to an externally manipulative world, What Makes Kids KICK can serve as your resource of resources.”
Elisa Medhus, M.D.
Houston, Texas
“Fran Kick knows kids inside out, and he gives real-world practical ideas for those seeking to parent and teach them. This book provides a wealth of amazing resources and usable tools to KICK IT IN with kids of all ages!”
Eric Chester
Founder & President of Generation Why
“Fran Kick’s series of books on What Makes Kids Kick are a breath of fresh air and should be required reading to those of us who are parents or teachers. You will find them a wonderful tool for understanding what motivates drives, distracts, and frustrates our Millennial young people. Fran’s conclusions are laser guided and definitely on the mark. With 37 years as a high school teacher and having 6 children and 13 grandchildren I was thrilled to read Fran’s insights and amazingly thorough research concerning today’s youth. Being of the Boomer generation and having taught through three generations of students I was delighted by the way Fran dissipated the clouds of confusion about what makes our current young people tick.”
Walt Lovell, Teacher
Elko High School, Nevada
“I constantly hear kids voice two complaints about the adults in their life – ‘they don’t listen’ and ‘they don’t understand.’ By helping us listen and understand, Fran Kick opens doors for positive communication with the kids we know, love, and long to lead into healthy adulthood.”
Walt Mueller, President
Center for Parent/Youth Understanding
DETAILS
Title: What Makes Kids Kick
Author: Fran Kick
Copyright: 2005
ISBN: 9781591990147
Publisher: Instruction & Design Concepts
Language: English
Length: 227 pages
Format: Paperback, Perfect Bound, 6×10.5 inches
Chapters:
Overview of Content and Context
Today’s Generation of Kids
Generational Influences
Developmental Influences
Motivational Influences
References
Index