A Parent's Guide to Building Resilience in Children and Teens: Giving Your Child Roots and Wings Book

Today s children face a great deal of stress - academic performance, heavy scheduling, high achievement standards, media messages, peer pressures, family tension. Without healthier solutions, they often cope by talking back, giving up, or indulging in unhealthy behaviors. Show your child how to bounce back - and THRIVE - with coping strategies from one of the nation s foremost experts in adolescent medicine.

This 7-C plan for resilience that helps kids of all ages learn competence, confidence, connection, character, contribution, coping, and control to help them bounce back from challenges. You'll find effective strategies to help your children and teens:

• Make wise decisions
• Recognize and build on their natural strengths
• Deal effectively with stress
• Foster hope and optimism
• Develop skills to navigate a complex world
• Avoid risky behaviors
• Take care of their emotions and their bodies

Plus, two Personalized Stress Management Plans help your child create a customized strategy. It s everything your child needs to face life s challenges and bounce back with confidence!

Library Journal

Resilience the ability to recover from setbacks, rise above difficult circumstances, and learn from mistakes is a trait with which all children are born, yet it diminishes in today's pressure-filled world. Ginsburg (pediatrics, Children's Hosp. of Philadelphia, Univ. of Pennsylvania Sch. of Medicine), along with Jablow (coauthors, But I'm Almost 13!: Raising a Responsible Adolescent), approaches this topic both as a doctor and as a parent. Defining the seven "C's" of resilience competence, confidence, connection, character, contribution, coping, and control he teaches parents and other adults how to help kids become more capable of meeting life head-on. This is a thorough, sensible book filled with commonsense solutions for daily life. Many of today's parents are too connected, writes Ginsburg, hovering like "helicopters" around their children. One of his helpful ideas is a nightly check-in between parents and kids; not an interrogation, just an "I'm home, good night!" approach. He also looks at terrorism, divorce, death, and fears. As good as Robert Brooks and Sam Goldstein's Raising Resilient Children: Fostering Strength, Hope, and Optimism in Your Child and an excellent addition for public libraries. Linda Beck, Indian Valley P.L., Telford, PA Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.