A Parent's Guide to Building Resilience in Children and Teens: Giving Your Child Roots and Wings (American Academy of Pediatrics)

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 bodiesPlus, 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! Todays 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 tobounce back and THRIVE with coping strategies from one of the nations 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 findeffective 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. Its everything your child needs to face lifes challenges and bounce back with confidence! Recognizing that the ability to bounce back after disappointment can be a problem for children and teens who do not learn positive ways to deal with internal and external pressure, this approach to building resilience avoids childhood stress by teaching children that failure is a natural part of life. To organize the discussion, the ingredients for resilience are broken down into "the crucial seven Cs": competence, confidence, connection, character, contribution, coping, and control--and are supplemented by discussions of understanding and respecting emotions, enjoying play, learning to accept Todays 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 nations foremost experts in adolescent medicine. The plan in this book consists of 7 crucial Cs: competence, confidence, connection, character, contribution, coping, and control Offers parents an understanding of stress and how it impacts children's emotional health and behavior. This work teaches effective strategies for building resiliency at an early age so that children can become confident and competent in facing stressful situations. Provides guidance and tools for parents on building competence, confidence, connection, character, contribution, coping, and control in children of all ages, and includes stress management guides for teens and preteens