Martha Moraghan Jablow

Kenneth R. Ginsburg

Today's children face a great deal of stress -- academic performance, heavy scheduling, high achievement standards, media messages, peer pressure, family tension. Without healthier solutions, they often cope by talking back, giving up, or indulging in unhealthy behaviors. This plan for resilience can help kids from 18 months to 18 years build the 7 Crucial Cs needed to bounce back from challenges and manage stress -- competence, confidence, connection, character, contribution, coping, and control. In these pages, you'll find strategies to help 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, and take care of their emotions and their bodies. This book also includes chapters on perfectionism, the negative portrayal of teens and how it biases parents and damages you, special resilience strategies for military families, community-based resilience building, and when parents' resilience has reached its limits.

Giving Kids Roots and Wings

Building Resilience in Children and Teens

Ilana Ginsburg

Talia Ginsburg

"The lighthouse parenting strategy"--Cover.

Balancing Love with Expectations and Protection with Trust

Raising Kids to Thrive

Completely revised and updated, Reaching Teens provides communication strategies to effectively engage with today's teenagers. It is an invaluable resource for anyone who works with teens, pediatricians and other physicians, mental health care providers, social service workers, and educators. This groundbreaking multimedia resource combines video and text to show how recognizing, reinforcing, and building on inherent strengths supports positive youth development.

Strength-based, Trauma-sensitive, Resilience-building Communication Strategies Rooted in Positive Youth Development

Reaching Teens

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!

Giving Your Child Roots and Wings

A Parent's Guide to Building Resilience in Children and Teens

This book offers coping strategies for facing the combined elements of academic performance, high achievement standards, media messages, peer pressure, and family tension.

Kenneth R. Ginsburg

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