Resilient Kids

Raising Them to Embrace Life with Confidence

Kathy Koch, PhD, Kathy Koch PhD

• Publisher: Moody Publishers
• Year: 2022
• eBook ISBN:
  9780802473929
• Print ISBN:
  9780802429094
• Edition: 1

Children need to believe their future is bright. The more disappointments they don’t recover well from, the less likely they are to dream. When they do not process challenging experiences well it can lead to defeat, rather than encourage them to grow and mature. Far too many children don’t grasp their strengths and, as a result do not believe they can overcome negative encounters. Apathy sets in. Discouragement persists. Arguments rage. Mental health suffers. Children need to be resilient and when they develop this ability and make wise choices it becomes part of their character. Furthermore, they need parents who help them to learn from negative experiences and who allow them a certain measure of struggle. In Resilient Kids moms and dads will learn the power and purpose of resilience and how to parent so as to make it more likely their children will utilize this character quality.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Foreword
• 1. What Is Resiliency and Why Does It Matter?
• 2. What Do Resilient Children Believe and Why Does It Matter?
• 3. What Do Children Think About What Happened and Why Does It Matter?
• 4. How Struggling Helps Us
• 5. Yes, But …
• 6. What to Do: Conversations That Build Resiliency
• 7. What to Say: Conversations That Build Resiliency
• 8. Get Unstuck: Moving from Setback to Comeback
• 9. Spiritual Resiliency
• One Last Thought
• Appendix: Beliefs Resilient Children Have About Themselves and Their Parents
• Acknowledgments
• Notes
• About Kathy Koch, PhD, and Celebrate Kids, Inc.