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by: Kenneth R. Ginsburg
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 155.41824
EAN: 9781581102260
ISBN: 1581102267
Label: American Academy Of Pediatrics
Manufacturer: American Academy Of Pediatrics
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 300
Publication Date: October 01, 2006
Publisher: American Academy Of Pediatrics
Sales Rank: 172594
Studio: American Academy Of Pediatrics
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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!
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Rating: - If all parents could read this book we would all be in harmony!
There are many times as parents that we all feel a little lost raising our children. We question (or don't question enough) everything we do and say. This book is powerful! Every sentence, phrase, word in this book has a strong meaning. It gives you new ways of looking at the experiences that both you and your child are having from birth through adolescence. Our kids have so much pressure on them today. Helping them to build their resilience and manage stress is imperative. There is even a ... Read More
Rating: - This book has saved my sanity!
I have read Dr. Ginsburg's book "Building Resilience in Children and Teens" cover to cover and still refer to it constantly. He has a way of writing that gives us (parents) a sense of confidence in what we are doing right and elaborates on concrete ways to do it better. This book has completely changed the way my teen and I communicate. I now find myself in a better position to relate to my teen's point of view, and am able to talk with her in a way that she will relate to. I think many parents feel ... Read More
Rating: - I recommend this to parents of my adolescent patients
As an physician who takes care of adolescents exclusively, I am grateful for the resource that this book provides both to me and to my patients' families. Ginsburg's approach to understanding children and teens is fresh, realistic, and honest. He teaches how to understand kids and how to communicate effectively with them. He offers guidance on how to help children to help themselves, which is ultimately the skill they need to be well-adjusted, successful adults. Whether you are a parent or a professional, ... Read More
Rating: - A MUST have book for anyone parenting a teen! If you buy only one book on parenting -- BUY THIS BOOK!
As a single parent of a fourteen year-old daughter and a seventeen year-old son, I see the tremendous stress that my children and their friends struggle with on a daily basis. They are striving to be strong and independent while trying to balance the pressure to get good grades, deal with peer pressure and friends who are exploring risky behaviors, handle family tensions, and just figuring out to grow up to be the adults they want to be. This MUST HAVE book for all parents provides a realistic and easily understandable ... Read More
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