Finishing Touches: Raising Children of Grace in a Grades-Obsessed World

What if the most important thing missing from your child's education has nothing to do with their grades? >Finishing Touches is the book that addresses what formal education leaves out. Written by Patric Rozario - Founder of The Finishing Academy, and author of the acclaimed Unfixed and Unfixed Companion Guide - this is a comprehensive, deeply practical, and profoundly inspiring guide to raising children of genuine CLASS. Not class in the social or economic sense. But CLASS in its truest meaning - the quality of a human being who moves through the world with grace, with integrity, with genuine warmth, and with the quiet, unshakeable conviction that every person they encounter matters. Across sixteen richly written chapters, Finishing Touches takes parents and educators on a complete journey - from the innermost foundations of character, confidence, and emotional intelligence, through the visible polish of manners, speech, and digital grace, into the social presence of a child who knows how to enter a room, dine with grace, respect elders, and move through a diverse world with genuine cultural sensitivity - and finally to the deepest purpose of all. The recognition that CLASS is not just polish. It is purpose. It is kindness in practice, service in action, and leadership that lifts rather than dominates. This is not a book about perfect children. It is a book about real ones - and about the parents, teachers, and mentors who have decided that marks alone are not enough. That the report card tells only part of the story. That the child they are raising deserves to be equipped, not just educated - with the grace, the character, and the genuine human presence that will carry them through every room they ever enter for the rest of their life. Finishing Touches is the finishing school that belongs in every home. "The marks will open doors. Who your child truly is - the character they have built, the grace they have cultivated, the genuine care for others they carry into every room - is what keeps them open."

Pagina's: 234, Paperback, Independently published