Book Review: ‘The Resilient Child’
September 2, 2009 by Liz Lewis
Filed under Book Reviews, Boys & Girls, How To
Want to learn how to stress-proof your kids and help them learn skills and techniques to cope with all the life can throw at them?
Then check out this book by Dr George S Everly Jr, a leading expert in the field of stress management. Everly, who predominantly counsels victims of life’s toughest moments, such as the Oklahoma City bombing, 9/11, and Hurricane Katrina, wrote this book as a gift to his own children. In fact, it is a gift to all parents and children who have the opportunity to read and take on board it’s lessons.
Called The Resilient Child: Seven Essential Lessons for Your Child’s Happiness and Success, the book offers parents a way to teach child the basic skills need to develop inner strength to cope with stress and adversity.
Using the ABCs (Action, Belief, and Codes) as the foundation, Everly addresses the seven important steps to achieving this goal”
Develop strong relationships- Make difficult decisions
- Take responsibility for their own actions
- Invest in themselves and others
- Follow a moral compass: Integrity
- Think optimistically and harness the power of the self-fulfilling
prophecy
One of the things I really like about this book is the emphasis placed on the role of personal responsibility and integrity. These are two things that I feel have been neglected by society over the past couple of decades.
The other is that it’s full of personal anecdotes and activities that illustrate the techniques and lessons in a way that can be easily understood by people of all ages. In fact, it offers life lessons that everyone, irregardless of whether you are a parent or not, need to learn and utilize.
