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

by Kenneth R. Ginsburg

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!
 

Genres: Parenting, Nonfiction, Health, Psychology

300 pages, Paperback

Published October 1, 2006

Reviews

[Betty Cheng]

Picked this book up when I attended a lecture given by the author. He was one of the keynote speakers at a symposium dedicated to exploring child and teen stress. He is one of the best speakers I've ever heard. The contents of his lecture jibed so closely with my personal experience as a stressed out child and teen and as an adult undergoing treatment for stress that I can't imagine the contents of the book would be anything less than exceptional.

Looking forward to reading his book.

[Jeanne · Rating 5 out of 5]

From the first page thru Chapter 2 where I currently am reading, I am on board. Ginsberg has the creds and the wisdom to be a reliable guide for parents. He even understands that there are teens who will need to learn without parental support.

The library copy I started with is dog-eared by many readers. And my daughter and I have already discussed my reading as she thinks of her two children. I think I will send copies of this to our grown kids --who are along with their spouses actively interested in good ideas.

[Anne · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is AMAZING. I am going to read it again as soon as I finish it. I've been reading it in short bits - 15 minutes while I wait for the girls at the end of the school day and each day there is some little piece of advice that is practical and immediately useful. It offers advice without making you feel like you've done everything wrong up until this point.

[Christine · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really liked this one because the author gave some nice concrete examples of what you need to do for your kids to help them in difficult pressure related situations. I will probably reread this when they are teenagers because it is really good advice for that age group.

[Ilene Fey · Rating 5 out of 5]

Must Read for All Parents!!!!!!!

[Reham · Rating 4 out of 5]

II still reading it .However it's a remarkable book i'm shore.

[Heidi · Rating 3 out of 5]

The content in this book is excellent and it's well worth reading. Delivery is pretty dry, hence the 3 stars.

[Andrea Hilsabeck · Rating 4 out of 5]

One of the better parenting books I've read.