Someone once said there’s nothing new under the sun, and, with the
plethora of parenting titles, it certainly seems as if there couldn’t be
anything new or fresh in the offing.
But, with Help Your Kids Get It Done Right at Home and School!
Building Responsibility & Self-Esteem in Children, by Donna M.
Genett, Ph. D., Quill Driver Books not only has a terrifically helpful
new parenting title for summer reading, this Central California
publisher also has a fresh slant in both content and format.
Most people are familiar with the successful business-parable titles
such as The One Minute Manager, Fish!, and Who Moved My
Cheese. Quill Driver Books has had Olympian success with a similar
title by Dr. Genett, If You Want It Done Right, You Don’t Have to Do
It Yourself! The Power of Effective Delegation. Foreign rights have
been sold for 13 countries; Barnes & Noble’s nationwide Career Success
promotion with the title has been so successful, the bookstore chain
recently extended it for the fifth time; scores of corporations base
trainings on the book; even the Army and Navy use it. In addition, the
success of the book has flooded Dr. Genett’s worldwide speaking schedule
for 2005 and beyond.
Why is this relevant? Because, with Help Your Kids Get It Done Right,
Dr. Genett has taken this same parable model and applied it to
parenting. Help Your Kids Get It Done Right is a charming story
using the same “identical twins,” James and Jones, from her first book.
As with all good allegories, Help Your Kids Get It Done Right
instructs while it entertains. Like Dr. Genett’s previous book, Help
Your Kids Get It Done Right is straightforward and practical and
delivers immediately-applicable tools that offer life-changing
potential—this time for parents and their children.
Quill Driver Books will be publishing Help Your Kids Get It Done
Right in the same hardcover format and relaxed interior design that
is used with the successful business parable titles—titles that millions
of readers have found useful and rewarding.
The editors at Quill Driver Books are doing this because they think
that, to a great degree, the market for these short business books is
the same as the market for Dr. Genett’s new book: young, upwardly mobile
men and women without a lot of time to read. It is expected that,
because of the rewarding experience these readers have had with the
business-parable books, they will quickly recognize Help Your Kids
Get It Done Right as a book to help them deal with the challenges
inherent in fulfilling their children’s potential.
Help Your Kids Get It Done Right is the first time a publisher
has taken this short parable model across category lines from business
to parenting. Does this mean Quill Driver Books is inventing a new
publishing genre, “parenting parables,” that will sweep through the
industry? Only time will tell.
Will the book be a success? Steve Mettee, Quill Driver Books’ publisher
says he’d “bet dollars to politician’s promises that it is.” But not
because of its design. “It will be a success because Donna Genett’s
simple, six-step program truly helps parents help their kids reach their
full potential.”
Help Your Kids Get It Done Right at Home and School! Building
Responsibility and Self-Esteem in Children (Quill Driver Books,
$19.95) will be available at brick and mortar bookstores and online
bookstores in July or by calling the publisher at 1-800-497-4909.
