BOUNCE BACK!

Helping kids to be resilient and have healthy self-esteem

Parenting is challenging and everybody struggles with it. Life for today's young people is more complex than ever before and every parent wants to help their child to cope with life and be successful.This book gives parents practical strategies for helping their children become resilient, confident young people with healthy self esteem who can handle their own lives in a successful and adaptive way. Some of the strategies that are outlined include:

1. Developing the family strengths that help families successfully manage problems, threats and challenges
2. Teaching prosocial and positive values to guide moral behaviour and help young people make positive connections with others.
3. Teaching coping skills such as optimistic thinking, managing negative feelings and keeping thing in perspective
4. Teaching social skills such as being interesting, joining in with others, managing conflict, and being a good friend
5. Encouraging successful thinking i.e. showing them how to gain self-knowledge, set goals, make plans, work hard and not give up when they strike difficulties or make mistakes.

Teach Your Child to BOUNCE BACK! also contains case studies, research snapshots, self-reflection quizzes and checklists, and suggestions for books, DVD's, games and fun things to do with your children that help your children that help to give the resilience message.

This book is not yet published. An announcement on this page of the website will let you know when the parent book is available for purchase.