Building Resilience in Children and Teens

Incredibly helpful book both in my personal life as a parent and my professional work with JJC involved youth.

A wonderful resource to a trauma informed library.

Great information. Dr. Kenneth R. Ginsberg makes things clear and simple. Also a great speaker if you ever get the chance to hear him

This book was a great help for me during the completion of my MSW.

Great book about helping develop young people. If you work with youth, read this book!

I found this book an "easy to read"...

This was an amazing book!!! I have 3 boys, ages 27,22and 9 so the teen years going into wings was the enticer of this book.

My favorite section was Part 5 on Control. Especially chapter 33, it was a very good reminder that kids need both freedom and boundaries to grow, mature and learn to make good/safe decisions. The bonus piece is that is also improves our communication with youth and diminishes triangulation.

This book was exactly what I needed. My 13 year old has juvenile polyarticular rheumatoid arthritis and after all the stress and trauma of what she has gone through she has really needed my help in fostering resilience. This book gave me some great insight and ideas on how to communicate, discipline and love my daughter and all my children even through the hard stuff.

I love this book it was easy to read and had examples that just about anyone can relate to. I would recommend this book to anyone with teens. Great book.

This book gives a lot of great ideas. Good for anyone with teens.

An excellent reference book with ideas for clinicians working with teens. I will keep this one on my shelf.

Decent read. A lot of personal stories so it seems less data research based. There are some good nuggets of information.

Absolutely LOVE this book! The author uses conversational English, a gift rarely seen. His examples are ones anyone is going through currently. He offers possibilities that are easy to use and follow. He explains the 'why' behind our thoughts, actions, and reactions. The videos and checklists supplement the reading to a 't'.

This book is fantastic. It gives great strategies for raising children. I do wish it was more focused on young children but it's helpful anyway. I would recommend this book to anyone with kids or going into the childcare profession.

Dr. Kenneth Ginsburg's book "Building Resilience in Children and Teens: Giving Kids Roots and Wings" is a must-read for any educator passionate about enhancing the lives of their students. Dr. Ginsburg presents tangible ways to: * bolster students' self-esteem * build confidence in students * learn the art of truly listening to students * teach grit * be compassionate . . . and the list goes on. This book serves as an excellent reminder that we, as educators, have the capacity to truly influence each student's life in a healthy, positive way, while also teaching them the skills they need to be successful both at school and in the world.

This book was an excellent read. I highly recommend diving in and deep, then reflecting how you feel paragraph to paragraph. Consider thinking about your own childhood and how to incorporate it with those you serve.

Absolute must read for every parent, teacher, counselor, director or anyone who works with children. Avoid the pitfalls of child rearing and interactions that have created a generation of potential entitlement and fear of failure in many children. For such a small publication, it packs a punch and does not just present doom and gloom theories, but instead gives every adult the practical tools needed to help a child build resilience.

This book had been so essential in my role as a family educator. Very insightful!!

Enjoyed reading this book as a parent and wished I would have read it when my oldest was a younger. Great advice on ways to communicate with children, keeping them safe while also fostering confidence in your child.

It was well written and an easy read. Good information. The only issue I had was that I was not able to access the video's on the website.

Interesting perspective reading as a new parent. Great things to bring more awareness for parenting.

This book was extremely helpful for me as I study the ACE's. Its super friendly to thumb through from section to section as needed. It has so much good content in it. I valued the authors point of view as well. This book helped me as a mother and a teacher.

This is a great resource for anyone with children and/or teens- but also anyone who works with children and teens. It offers great perspective on how to help them form into outstanding, RESILIENT young humans. Recommend!

It was an amazing book, lent it out to a volunteer through my program!

Loved it! So insightful and helpful to my work with students dealing with the negative impacts of childhood trauma.

Great book! Learn to help others "bounce back" and share building coping skills.

Amazing book great information

My niece loves this book!

Valuable book on building resilience in children and teens. Easy read w/ tons of tangible ideas to implement. Covers fundamental topics like how to effectively communicate and create healthy boundaries, and more current issues like media (screen time) smarts. I'm excited to use some of the role plays w/ the students I support as an educator, as well as my daughter as she develops.

Excellent read. Use it for work!

Building Resilience in children and teens information will help greatly at school with my students.

I am deeply enjoying this well-organized and thoughtful amalgamation of best practices. It is easy to read, approachable and sensible, but also inspiring and thought provoking. There are some absolute gems and also a lot of common sense put into clear context, which serves as a good reminder. Highly recommended.

This book provides a good review of, not only what resilience is, but how to promote it within today's youth. I appreciate that the book goes back to early infancy and how this changes to promote people to be more resilient. This grows throughout the entire book. From handling it through various strategies and other coping mechanisms, including taking care of yourself.

This books is just an overall amazing for just about everyone; parents, teachers, social workers, basically anyone who is interacting with children at all. It has a really good balance of teaching children how to gain self confidence while also keeping them safe. It seems like a lot of common sense and easy concepts but everything in this book is SO useful and it has a lot of topics that are often completely overlooked when teaching children.

This book is a great resource! I would recommend it to any one working directly or indirectly with children.

Enjoyed learning how to support my son and things I can do as a parent

This book is amazing. this book has really helped me to understand how to help with peer pressure, academic pressure, family issues and much more.

I'm really getting good information about what it takes on my part to help give children the tools for building the resilience mindset going forward in life!

This book is a must read for anyone who works with children especially students at the elementary level because as educators we are able give the students the support and tools they need to be successful in life. Of course there will be bumps on the road but we have to at least try. This book gives you an insight on how to navigate those obstacles and allows us to try and understand the hardships that others go through.

This books is titled "Building Resilience in Children and Teens," but the primary focus is on adolescence rather than toddlers and elementary aged children. Also, I found myself sometimes overwhlemed with the amount of information and not sure how exactly to apply it. While the later part on coping was helpful, you have to wade through 200 pages of other information first.

This book was practical and an captivating read.

Amazing resource

A good book for parents, professionals and others who care about young people. The 7 C's framework is easily accessible and the resources (especially videos) are great for quick learning. Lots of easily digestible segments for specific circumstances (i.e. Connection in Military Families).

This book is filled with ideas for building resilience in kids. So many ideas are small and nuanced. Slight ways we can shift our language, time, or interactions with kids. It’s not a hard read, but also not quick due to all the content.

Every parent and teacher should read this book. It gives insight into the world of students who need to fly. The author shared best practices to help every community.

I enjoyed this book. It brought much awareness on Resiliency and childhood trauma.

This book is empowering for the reader in helping young people to reframe their adverse experiences into sources of growth and strength.

Great "how to" advice. A must read for anyone in a helping profession.

I was looking for a book on resilience to share with our Court Appointed Special Advocates and I found it. This is one of the best I have read. I have also recommended it to two parents for their use.

I enjoyed the age spectrum in this book and specifically appreciated that the author tackled problems congruent with our age of technology and how this has impacted our children. It was help as a parent who has kids who range in ages from 4 to 17.

Excellent book for anyone with kids, teaching kids, or working with kids in any way. This book has very useful, easy to use examples. Highly recommend!

This book is packed with information, strategies, and insights that every parent or adult who works with children should know. Each chapter and section gets down to the core of how to help children grow socially and emotionally. The book is a toolbox that should be revisited often.

This is an excellent book! Is helping me personally and professionally.

I loved this book, it has helped out so much thank you.

This book is a must have for any parent wishing for a guidebook to happy kids in today's chaotic world. Today's youth are faced with many challenges that are new to their generation and this helps navigate through child-rearing to raise successful adults.

Useful and good information. Parts are common sense, parts are dry, but worth reading.

Very down to earth, science based recommendations on how to raise kids with respect and authenticity. As an avid reader in this genre I didn't see anything outstanding and new, rather a well-researched summary of many solid ideas. I love that there are plentiful references for scientific studies and published journal articles backing up the theories presented in the book. A wonderful read, highly recommend.

The book is very well set up, with picture breakdowns, clear sections, and situations to understand what the section is talking about at points. Very well written.

This book was well written and I felt there was no judgement and full of practical information.

This book is great for parents and caregivers. It's an easy read, full of plenty of useful information.

I teach in a school that serves four of the six poorest zip codes in the state and many of my students are dealing with situations that completely overwhelm them. I found much in "Building Resilience in Children and Teens: Giving Kids Roots and Wings" that fit in with ACES training and programs that my school has instituted to work with, support and work with our student population. It is overwhelming, especially when you don't have one of the most important needs to be successful, time. It takes time to build resilience and when one is dealing with a student population that has a large migratory population and/or absentee rate, it makes the work all the more difficult. I mention this because time is the commodity that is the hardest to carve out as a teacher. Juggling the needs of multiple students (high school) and the requirements of the job is the hardest to keep track of and maintaining forward momentum. I lead off with this because, it has been the hardest part of trying to implement with my students. There is a lot of positive and good information in this book, so much that it can seem overwhelming. You find yourself wondering where to start. What strategies will be the ones to start to build the foundation of resilience on. How to frame the strategies in a way that facilitates buy in by the students. I am happy that I read this work, it did answer some questions I had and it has helped me to fine tune and tweak some of the strategies that I have begun to use with my students with the most need.

Lots of helpful, insightful information. I’m passing the book along to my son & daughter in law. Their youngest is 13, and has had problems this year with bullying and anxiety issues. The chapter on confidence is definitely a place for them to start working together. I’m hoping that the entire family works through the book together.

A must read for parents and educators

This was a lovely book to read. I especially the section where it stated, "Young People Who Don't Live Up to THeir Potential Aren't Necessarily Lazy."

This book was a great resource for understanding the effects of stress on kids and for ideas to help children develop grit, residence and a positive self esteem!!

Approaches raising children with love and no games. Asks parents to strive to be adults (not always perfectly possible) and to help children, and teens, grow -- even when suffering from severe stress -- incrementally to be more responsible. There is much wisdom in the book but it might not be easily understood or clear to some given its slightly academic style. The use of stories helps, and the referral to videos available on-line helps as well. Part 7 deals with the role of communities in helping teens. I think this is why the Ford Institute Leadership Program engaged youth as young as 13, as part of an effort to help young people grow into adulthood.

Excellent resource. A must read for any parent, educator, coach or anyone working with children.

Great overview and insights to resilience. More family oriented, but can be related to education/classroom. Loved the 7 C's!

I like the layout of the book. Really helpful book for parenting.

This book was very well written and easily one of the better resilience building for children and teens. I found the online videos that were included with this book a bonus.

Solid book.

THIS IS A MUST READ! I ordered this book out of curiosity and ended up reading this in one night. This book contains information you don't particularly think about on a day to day basis, but really need to take a step back and reevaluate. A must read for all parents!

This book is a great resource for anyone who has children or works with them. I am using the book to help me understand what else can be done for youth in foster care. At the end of the book, the author offers a list of questions we can use to help develop the 7 C's in youth: Competence, Confidence, Connection, Character, Contribution, Coping and Control. It is helping me understand how to engage in relationships that build these assets in not only the children I serve, but my own grandchildren. After I finish using the book for research, I'm giving it to my daughter!