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Resilience : How to Raise Strong, Independent Children in a Difficult and Competitive World
If you’re interested in ensuring your child develops into a strong, independent adult ready to face an increasingly difficult and ultra-competitive world, then this is going to be the most important message you’ll ever hear!
Here is the reason the information in this book is so urgent.
We love our children, but as parents we sometimes fall into the trap of trying to choreograph their success. We steer them away from potential bumps along the road rather than teaching them how spot and avoid these hazards, or more importantly, how to work through and keep going when they hit difficult times.
Protecting our children from hardship seems like one of the most loving things we can do, right? Wrong! It’s actually one of the most harmful things we can do and it most likely will leave them unprepared to face the harsh realities of life when they leave home. Don’t believe me?
Here is just one example, The heads of Counseling Services at major universities across the nation are struggling with how to deal with the decline of resilience among college age students. Emergency calls to Counseling have more than doubled over the past five years. Students are increasingly seeking help for, and apparently having emotional crises over, problems of everyday life. These students are intelligent and talented with no history of emotional problems yet they are struggling mightily causing faculty and advisers to question why. After much research What they have learned is that in most cases, the students just hadn’t learned how to deal with challenges well. Reinforcing the claim that this is a nationwide problem, the Chronicle of Higher Education recently ran an article by Robin Wilson entitled, “An Epidemic of Anguish: Overwhelmed by Demand for Mental-Health Care, Colleges Face Conflicts in Choosing How to Respond" (Aug. 31, 2015). Colleges and universities have traditionally been centers for higher academic education, where the expectation is that the students are adults, capable of taking care of their own everyday life problems. Today, that just isn’t the case
See? It is a big and growing problem….So, what do we do?
As parents, no matter how devoted and nurturing we may be, our children will face hardships such as, disappointment , hurt feelings, low self-esteem, anxiety, maybe depression, and a host of other challenges. Some of these disturbances are simply life experiences that they are going to have to experience. Our goal is to feel confident that they will overcome these obstacles and that our kids will even grow stronger for that success. To achieve that end, we need to provide them with the skills to be resilient, to bounce back from these assaults on their well-being and ultimately to thrive in their lives.
Like me, you’re probably asking “How do we do that?” I’m glad you asked……
That's why we’re so excited to share with you this amazing new book, written by Deborah Adams, a mother of six children, who has developed a 24 year tested method that if followed, does exactly that, it will provide parents with the confidence and ability to raise strong , independent and resilient children prepared to take on the difficulties of life and thrive in a challenging world.
This book and method are powerful! Here is a small sample of what it offers:
• How to help children develop a positive attitude
• Techniques that will have children see challenges as opportunities
• Effective ways to avoid over protecting children
• How to give children age appropriate responsibilities
• Helps parents implement a method of holding children accountable
•
Here is the reason the information in this book is so urgent.
We love our children, but as parents we sometimes fall into the trap of trying to choreograph their success. We steer them away from potential bumps along the road rather than teaching them how spot and avoid these hazards, or more importantly, how to work through and keep going when they hit difficult times.
Protecting our children from hardship seems like one of the most loving things we can do, right? Wrong! It’s actually one of the most harmful things we can do and it most likely will leave them unprepared to face the harsh realities of life when they leave home. Don’t believe me?
Here is just one example, The heads of Counseling Services at major universities across the nation are struggling with how to deal with the decline of resilience among college age students. Emergency calls to Counseling have more than doubled over the past five years. Students are increasingly seeking help for, and apparently having emotional crises over, problems of everyday life. These students are intelligent and talented with no history of emotional problems yet they are struggling mightily causing faculty and advisers to question why. After much research What they have learned is that in most cases, the students just hadn’t learned how to deal with challenges well. Reinforcing the claim that this is a nationwide problem, the Chronicle of Higher Education recently ran an article by Robin Wilson entitled, “An Epidemic of Anguish: Overwhelmed by Demand for Mental-Health Care, Colleges Face Conflicts in Choosing How to Respond" (Aug. 31, 2015). Colleges and universities have traditionally been centers for higher academic education, where the expectation is that the students are adults, capable of taking care of their own everyday life problems. Today, that just isn’t the case
See? It is a big and growing problem….So, what do we do?
As parents, no matter how devoted and nurturing we may be, our children will face hardships such as, disappointment , hurt feelings, low self-esteem, anxiety, maybe depression, and a host of other challenges. Some of these disturbances are simply life experiences that they are going to have to experience. Our goal is to feel confident that they will overcome these obstacles and that our kids will even grow stronger for that success. To achieve that end, we need to provide them with the skills to be resilient, to bounce back from these assaults on their well-being and ultimately to thrive in their lives.
Like me, you’re probably asking “How do we do that?” I’m glad you asked……
That's why we’re so excited to share with you this amazing new book, written by Deborah Adams, a mother of six children, who has developed a 24 year tested method that if followed, does exactly that, it will provide parents with the confidence and ability to raise strong , independent and resilient children prepared to take on the difficulties of life and thrive in a challenging world.
This book and method are powerful! Here is a small sample of what it offers:
• How to help children develop a positive attitude
• Techniques that will have children see challenges as opportunities
• Effective ways to avoid over protecting children
• How to give children age appropriate responsibilities
• Helps parents implement a method of holding children accountable
•
65 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 31, 2017
About the author
Deborah Adams
48 books105 followersWriter, naturalist, and yoga educator Deborah Adams is the author of eight novels and numerous works of short fiction. She posts once or twice a month on her blog at www.Deborah-Adams.com
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