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Raise Children Who Are Happy, Healthy, Resilient, and Independent! Everywhere you look, children are strugglinghellip; Struggling to handle the pressure, to gain independence, to become confident, fulfilled adultshellip; Somethingrs"s missing: They need the tools to deal with everyday pressures and stress. Drawing on breakthrough insights from positive psychology, Dr. Stephen Briers shows you how. Briers helps you: Cultivate your childrs"s resiliencehellip; Help "inoculate" your child against depressionhellip; Strengthen personal competence and social confidencehellip; Boost your childrs"s problem-solving skillshellip; Keep bad behavior from happeninghellip; Promote a lifetime of happiness and well-beinghellip; Resilience. Competence. Independence. Fulfillment. These are the greatest powers you can give your child. You can do it: one day, one minute at a time. Get this book, and start today.

Before training as a clinical psychologist, Dr. Stephen Briers studied at Cambridge University where he was later employed in child development research at the Winnicott Unit. Today Stephen works clinically with both children and adults. His various television appearances include four series of the popular BBC parenting programs Little Angels , and Teen Angels , and Make Me a Grown-Up . He lives and works in Brighton with his wife and two young sons.

About the Author	p. xiv
Introduction	p. 1
X-ray Vision: Whatrsquo;s Going on Inside?	p. 17
Developing Super-Senses: The ABC of Feelings	p. 31
Mind Control for Beginners: The Foundations of Self-Control	p. 67
Becoming Indestructible: Nurturing Resilience in Young People	p. 99
Wrestling with Monsters: Overcoming Stress and Anxiety	p. 125
People Powers: Cultivating Social Confidence	p. 173
Unstoppable: Boosting Your Childrsquo;s Problem-Solving Skills	p. 207
References	p. 237
Index	p. 245
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Introduction IntroductionParenting is not easy. However much we love our children, and however much joy they bring, sometimes they push us to our limits. We are left feeling emotionally, mentally, and physically drained. At such moments, what parent wouldn't wish for superpowers? How fantastic it would be if we could instantly transform our children's behavior, make them see reason, or magically erase their troubles.Unfortunately, even this book can't make it quite that easy. There are no magic wands, no quick-fix solutions, no one-size-fits-all answers. However, before you rush off to the bookseller to demand your refund, consider this: Perhaps we parents are not the ones most in need of such superpowers. What difference would it make to our children's lives (and ours) if they were more capable of managing themselves in the very situations that end up running us ragged?This book is designed to help parents equip children to cope better with life. You may not be able to bestow superhuman powers on your offspring, but you certainly can teach skills, tactics, and strategies that will significantly increase your child's own capacity for self-control. I know from experience that if children learn to apply such tools consistently, the results can be dramatic.Training children to develop these "superpowers" is most effective when done daily, and parents can introduce these tactics when children are still very young. It's important to stress that this is a proactive way of parenting, not a reactive one. Instead of waiting for bad behavior to surface and then having to deal with it, we can teach our children skills that will help reduce the likelihood of that bad behavior ever happening in the first place. And, rather magically, these same skills and abilities will help children feel happier, less pressured by life, and more able to deal with their own feelings, other people, and the world around them.These superpowers don't have to be taught in a formal sense. In fact, they are best introduced gently, without drawing attention to them, as part of daily life. The aim of this book is to provide you with the ideas and the know-how so that when tricky situations crop up or you sense a storm brewing, you are already prepared and primed with all the strategies and skills you need to deal deftly with the situation. The Rise of the Guilty ParentPrevious generations of parents would probably shake their heads in wonder at the idea of us all striving to be better parents. In the old days, childrearing was just common sense or a traditional way of doing things, handed down largely unquestioned from one generation to the next. Parents were simply parents; it was their children who were more likely to be labeled "good" or "bad." All that has changed. Since the 1960s, it has become almost heretical to suggest that a child might be held personally responsible for undesirable behavior.The explanation for this shift lies with the behaviorists, founded by psychologist B. F. Skinner. Between the 1930s and 1950s, the behaviorists built on the work of Pavlov (of drooling dog fame) and promoted the extreme position that all human behavior can be reduced to a chain of cause and effect. Behind the smokescreen of the liberal, free-thinking 1960s, these behaviorist assumpt

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How Your Child Thinks Give Your Child the Superpowers to Be a Happy, Healthy Person

How Your Child Thinks Give Your Child the Superpowers to Be a Happy, Healthy Person

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