STOP RAISING WEAK KIDS
by Leroy Slanzi
Kids today can talk about their feelings better than any generation before them.
So why are so many of them falling apart when they experience frustration, disappointment, boredom, anxiety, failure, or discomfort?
After more than twenty-six years as a teacher, principal, and father, Leroy Slanzi believes the problem isn't that our kids are broken.
It's that they're underprepared for discomfort.
In our effort to protect children from struggle, many of us have unintentionally removed the very experiences that build resilience, emotional intelligence, responsibility, confidence, and mental strength.
Stop Raising Weak Kids challenges modern parenting assumptions and explores why so many children struggle with frustration tolerance, emotional regulation, responsibility, anxiety, and perseverance.
Through powerful stories, practical insights, and hard-earned lessons from both home and school, Slanzi offers a different path forward—one that balances love with leadership, compassion with accountability, and support with resilience.
This is not a book about being tougher.
It's a book about raising kids who can handle tough things.
Because our kids don't need perfect parents.
They need steady ones.
More books by Leroy Slanzi
Emotional Schools
The Looming Mental Health Crisis And A Pathway Through It
Something is off in our schools.
Students are more anxious. Teachers are burned out. Classrooms feel heavier and leaders are holding more than they were ever trained for.
We keep adding programs, strategies, and expectations. And it’s not working. Because the real problem isn’t academic. It’s emotional.
In this revised 2026 edition, principal Leroy Slanzi exposes what’s actually breaking down and what finally works. "Schools are emotional ecosystems."
This book delivers a clear, practical framework to build calm, connected, and accountable cultures that actually hold under pressure.
You're A Legend Until Lunchtime
Beyond Credentials And The Letters Behind Your Name
Most leaders look the part... until shit gets hard.
That’s when everything shifts.
In "You’re a Legend Until Lunchtime," principal Leroy Slanzi cuts through one of education’s biggest lies: credentials don’t create leaders, capacity does.
After 25+ years in schools, he shows what actually holds when pressure hits: emotional intelligence, trust, and the ability to lead when there’s no script.
This isn’t theory. This is real leadership, messy, human, and under pressure. Because anyone can be a legend in the morning.
The real question is... who are you after lunch?
"Let's Play Bruh!"
50 Games For Kindergarten - Grade 12 Teachers
Let’s Play, Bruh! helps educators build emotional intelligence through play!
Simple games. Real outcomes: resilience, self-regulation, and grit from Kindergarten to Grade 12. Because play isn’t a break from learning, it’s how kids learn to handle life.
Part of the Emotional Schools Framework by principal Leroy Slanzi.
"And Breathe"
50 Fun Calming Strategies for Kids, Parents & Teachers
And Breathe teaches children a skill they’ll use for life: how to calm themselves when emotions take over.
With simple, practical breathing strategies, kids learn to pause, reset, and regain control when they feel overwhelmed, frustrated, or anxious.
Written by educator and principal Leroy Slanzi, this book is part of the Emotional Schools Framework, helping families and schools build real emotional intelligence, not just talk about it.
In today’s fast, overstimulated world, this isn’t extra...it’s essential!