Curiosity
Protect the questions. Everyday conversation, unhurried play and honest not-knowing do more for a child's thinking than another scheduled activity.
Raising Visionary Children · Anthony Marshall
Raise curious, courageous children—without turning childhood into a performance.
A practical guide for ambitious parents who want to nurture curiosity, contribution and courage through everyday family life.
What if the most expensive mistake in modern parenting is doing too much of the right things?
Driven parents rarely fail through neglect. They fill the diary, solve the problem, smooth the path — and quietly remove the very friction a child needs. Some disciplines from building a business transfer well to family life. Optimising a child like a business does not.
Three things worth protecting
Contribution
Children grow into people who matter to others when they are trusted with real responsibility inside the family, not shielded from it.
Courage
Supported struggle, not rescue. Children build nerve when an adult stays close while they attempt the difficult thing themselves.
What you can use straight away
- Conversation habits you can use tonight at the dinner table
- Ways to give responsibility that fit your child's age and temperament
- How to respond when a child fails, stalls or refuses
- Talking about money, value and generosity without anxiety
- Family culture: the rhythms, stories and standards children absorb
- Chapter exercises and takeaways for parents who are short on time
“Pause before the answer, and let them reach.”
Inside the book
Each chapter sets out a principle, the evidence behind it, practical moves for parents, exercises and a short takeaway.
- 01Igniting Curiosity and Imagination
- 02Rewriting the Parenting Rulebook
- 03Stories, Play and Learning
- 04Building an Entrepreneurial Mindset
- 05Redefining Success and Self-Worth
- 06Quality Time and Connection
- 07Audacity and Resilience
- 08Money, Value, and Generosity
- 09You Are the Curriculum
- 10A Legacy of Abundance
From the introduction
You already know how to build things. A business, a practice, a career, a team — something that started as intention and became real through judgement, iteration, and stubbornness. This book rests on a simple observation: the disciplines you used to build whatever you've built are largely the right ones for the most important project you'll ever run, and almost everything else about how you're tempted to apply them is wrong.
Read the introductionAbout Anthony Marshall
Anthony Marshall is an entrepreneur, will writer, estate planner and father of two. He is the founder of Marshall Wills & Trusts and is based in Andover, Hampshire.
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