Building resilience in children and teens Giving kids roots and wings
Book - 2020
"Help prepare the children and teens in your life to face life's challenges with grace and grit. In this award-winning guide, best-selling author and pediatrician Dr. Ken Ginsburg shares his 7 crucial C's: competence, confidence, connection, character, contribution, coping, control. You'll discover how to incorporate these concepts into your parenting style and communication strategies, thereby strengthening your connection. And that connection will position you to guide your child to bounce back from life's challenges and forge a meaningful and successful life. You'll also learn detailed coping strategies to help children and teenagers deal with the stresses of academic pressure, media messages, peer pressure,... and family tension. These approaches will prepare children to thrive and make it less likely that they will turn to risky quick fixes and haphazard solutions." -- cover page 4.
- Subjects
- Published
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Itasca, IL :
American Academy of Pediatrics
[2020]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Other Authors
- Edition
- 4th edition
- Physical Description
- xxi, 393 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- ISBN
- 9781610023856
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part 1. Be the Kind of Parent With Long-standing Influence
- Chapter 1. The Power of Loving Relationships
- Chapter 2. Parenting the 35-Year-Old
- Chapter 3. The Right Balance Tips the Scales Toward a Positive Future
- Part 2. Resilience and Stress
- Chapter 4. Why Resilience?
- Chapter 5. Stress and Its Effects
- Chapter 6. Ingredients of Resilience: 7 Crucial Cs
- Chapter 7. The Language of Resilience
- Chapter 8. Not Letting Others Undermine Your Child's Resilience (or Psych You Out!)
- Part 3. Competence and Confidence
- Chapter 9. The Amazing Developing Brain
- Chapter 10. Getting Out of the Way
- Chapter 11. The Value of Play, Reflection, and Downtime
- Chapter 12. Noticing, Praising, and Criticizing
- Chapter 13. Authentic Success (This Includes Making the Most of Failure)
- Chapter 14. Thinking Clearly
- Chapter 15. No More Lectures
- Chapter 16. "I Get It!"
- Chapter 17. Changing Behavior Step-by-step
- Chapter 18. Shifting the Blame to Save Face
- Chapter 19. (Social) Media Literacy
- Chapter 20. Not Being Broken
- Chapter 21. Building Confidence
- Chapter 22. Raising Youth of Color in a Complex World
- Part 4. Connection
- Chapter 23. Protective Connections
- Chapter 24. Take a Breath, You're Co-regulating
- Chapter 25. The Art and Importance of Listening
- Chapter 26. Strengthening Family Ties
- Chapter 27. Widening the Circle
- Chapter 28. Having Their Back, True Unconditional Love
- Chapter 29. Preparing Our Families for Lifelong Interdependence
- Chapter 30. Some Cautions About Connection
- Chapter 31. Supporting Resilience in Military Families
- Chapter 32. Nurturant Connections Protect Against Toxic Stress
- Part 5. Character and Contribution
- Chapter 33. Character
- Chapter 34. Grit: A Character Trait That Drives Performance
- Chapter 35. Contribution
- Part 6. Coping
- Chapter 36. Getting a Grip on Stress
- Chapter 37. Taking Action
- Chapter 38. Taking Care of Your Body
- Chapter 39. Taking Care of Your Emotions
- Part 7. Control
- Chapter 40. Styles of Discipline
- Chapter 41. Positive Discipline Strategies
- Chapter 42. Increasing Kids' Control
- Chapter 43. Delaying Gratification
- Chapter 44. One Rung at a Time
- Chapter 45. Not Everything Is Within Our Control
- Part 8. When Resilience Is Challenged
- Chapter 46. Extreme Circumstances
- Chapter 47. Bringing Our Children Back
- Chapter 48. Turning for Help
- Chapter 49. When Your Own Resilience Reaches Its Limits
- Part 9. Especially for Communities
- Chapter 50. Community-Based Resilience-Building Strategies
- Parting Thoughts
- Index