Raising a child who is self-motivated requires a balanced approach that can be difficult to figure out. Thankfully, many parents before us and after us have been able to achieve this.

William Stixrud, a clinical neuropsychologist, and PrepMatters’ founder Ned Johnson, the authors of The Self-Driven Child, characterized How to Navigate Life as an “important book that offers dozens ...

After the release of his bestselling book “The Self-Driven Child,” clinical neuropsychologist William Stixrud got a request: make it even easier for parents to apply the research in the book. The ...

As parenting experts and authors of "The Self-Driven Child," we have a combined 65 years of research and experience working with kids (and have even raised a few of our own). We've found that the ...

I want to try to figure out what's really important to me." I think that the self-driven child is driven by internal motivation as opposed to other people's expectations, rewards, insecurity or fear.

But raising a self-driven child doesn't mean they "get to be the boss of everything, [or] that a 5-year-old kid never has to do anything they don't want to do," Stixrud said.

Raising a child who is self-motivated requires a balanced approach that can be difficult to figure out. Thankfully, many parents before us and after us have been able to achieve this.