Norwich: One Tiny Vermont Town’s Secret to Happiness and Excellence Audiobook
Norwich: One Tiny Vermont Town’s Secret to Happiness and Excellence Audiobook
- Gabra Zackman
- Simon & Schuster Audio
- 2018-01-23
- 4 h 37 min
Summary:
The extraordinary story of the small Vermont town that has likely produced even more Olympians per capita than some other place in the united states, Norwich gives “parents of young athletes a great gift—a glimpse at yet another way to raise accomplished and joyous competitors” (The Washington Post).
In Norwich, Vermont—a charming town of organic farms and clapboard colonial buildings—a culture has taken main that’s the contrary from the hypercompetitive schoolyard of today’s tiger moms and eagle dads. In about Norwich: One Tiny Vermont Town’s Magic formula to Pleasure and Brilliance Norwich, children aren’t slice from groups. They don’t specialize in a single sport, plus they also root because of their rivals. What’s even more, their hands-off parents cause them to become simply appreciate themselves. However this community of approximately three thousand occupants has gained three Olympic medals and delivered an athlete to nearly every Wintertime Olympics for the past thirty years.
Now, NY Occasions reporter and “gifted storyteller” (The Wall structure Road Journal) Karen Crouse spills Norwich’s secret to raising not only better athletes compared to the rest of America but happier, healthier children. Even though these “counterintuitive” (Amy Chua, bestselling writer of Fight Hymn from the Tiger Mom) lessons were honed in the New England snow, parents across the country will see that “Crouse’s message applies beyond a particular town or condition” (The Wall structure Street Journal).
If you’re seeking for answers about how to improve joyful, resilient children, permit Norwich take you to a location which has figured it out.