Raising Resilient Children: A Curriculum to Foster Strength, Hope, and Optimism in Children
Raising Resilient Children: A Curriculum to Foster Strength, Hope, and Optimism in Children Books
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Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City. Text contains nine-sessions of curriculum for parents. Provides strategies ensuring children are emotionally prepared to face challenges and set backs in life. Presents guidelines for in-class and at home activities for parents and real-life examples. Wire-spiral binding. Amazon.com Review
Child psychologists Robert Brooks and Sam Goldstein are too humble to promise a “sure bet” method for fostering resilience in all children, but their book Raising Resilient Children certainly does an impressive job of upping the ante. The authors open their comprehensive study with two bold questions: Why do many parents insist on pointing out their child’s weaknesses and try–in vain–to mend these, when harnessing the child’s strengths bolsters self-esteem? And how can parents exchange their erring ways to help these kids become thoughtful, confident adults? Their resolution is a wisely crafted set of 10 essential parenting behaviors (“guideposts”)–a prescription of sorts, for nurturing resilience in kids. Ironically, it’s the parents who may reap the greatest rewards from putting these guideposts to work.
Drawing heavily from 50 years of combined clinical do, Brooks and Goldstein conclude that a child’s resilience grows its deepest roots in the home, nurtured by parents who incorporate healthy doses of empathy, matter-of-fact optimism, respect, unconditional like, keen listening skills, and the patience to administer these values every day. Sounds logical, but the gap between knowledge and action is deceptively wide. The authors knowingly share a caseload of tales from their own clients’ histories–familiar scenarios of well-meaning parents who say and do counterproductive things. But they also bestow a treasury of suggestions for righting the wrongs, including detailed steps for rewriting negative parenting scripts, teaching and modeling empathy, and making opportunities for kids to act dutifully and compassionately. This timely, insightful book will prove an effective tool for parents who are willing to scrutinize–and improve upon–their own resilience. –Liane Thomas
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I was really disappointed with this book. In general it’s about building up children’s self-esteem, but doesn’t focus on helping children develop resilience with daily disappointments or problems (bullies, not making a soccer goal, etc.) Self esteem is very different from resilience. Instead, I’d urge two books: Blessings of the Skinned Knee and Mindset. Blessings is based on matter-of-fact/current applications from the Torah; I am not Jewish and still found this book to be very helpful/wonderful. The books don’t have chapters on “resilience”, but the overall info from both has been very helpful in that area.
Rating: 1 / 5
The authors of this book, experienced child psychologists, argue that resiliency is the most vital trait to encourage in children. Even if dealing with other shortcomings or challenges, children who are resilient are able to better interact with the world nearly them than other children.
I heartily agree with this viewpoint, and hope that I will be able to foster a sense of resilience in my own children. This book, but, didn’t have any earth-shattering advice that a thoughtful mother wouldn’t have already found evident.
It was nice to have a reminder that a mother should try to make sure to give her children more positive than negative comments, that she should make sure to encourage her children in areas where they feel successful, and should never compare children to each other. I found the tales in this book to be repetitive, though, and I found myself simply skimming the familiar advice, rather than feeling as if I were learning something new.
Rating: 3 / 5
Oy! If I have to read one more ‘fantastic save’ case by these authors/psychologists, I will pull out my hair. This book was one case study after another outlining in fantastic detail what their patients said and did and how wonderfully the authors managed to break through in each case, solving all problems for the troubled family, leaving them all pleased and saved as the doctors ride gloriously into the sunset. Ugh! I sought after more substance, more “this is what you need to do”. There was bounty of excellent advice in this book, but ordinarily it came in the first sentence or at the end of a case study. By the end of the book, I was skipping all the case studies and just searching nearly for the moral of the tale and looking for their not terrible advice. I reckon if the authors had simply printed out their observations and suggestions in outline form, the book would be much more helpful and most significantly, shorter.
Rating: 2 / 5
This book is full of wonderful, matter-of-fact thoughts for supporting children and helping them become more resilient. I appreciate how the authors don’t attack parents, but rather bestow their thoughts as case studies based on their years of work with families. The chapters dealing with schools, teachers, and parents should be a reading requirement for everyone before mother-teacher conferences. As you read, you’re required to take a hard look at yourself – so this is not a “ten tips to fix my child, I’m already doing things aptly” kind of book, as shown by this excerpt: “Reckon of your daily interactions with your children. Place yourself in their shoes. Now question yourself: If someone responded to me the way I responded to my children, would I walk away from that interaction feeling stronger, would I feel loved, would I be a more resilient person, or would I feel more defeated?” Much of the book focuses on how to make those interactions more positive and I found their examples/case studies really helpful when you’re raising challenging children! They “get” how exhausting it can be parenting them…and provide matter-of-fact tips for improving your relationship with them.
This book tackles everything from empathy, to understanding temperaments to nurturing “islands of competence”…and since the case studies include ages of preschoolers through teen years and beyond, it’s a book you’ll want to keep nearly to refer to again and again.
Rating: 5 / 5
Being a nerd of a new mother, I have read through many tomes and this one gets it about aptly. Written thoughtfully, there is applicable guidance here and excellent food for plotting. Look forward to reading the other book.
Some of the topics can seem common-sense but it serves as a excellent study reminder when parenting throws curveballs. Also, this is written in intelligent adult language and doesn’t dumb-down the helpful psychological discussion.
Rating: 4 / 5