Raising Resilient Children : Fostering Strength, Hope, and Optimism in Your Child

a must for parents
This book is right on! Having four children from 9-14 I was able to see some things I have not done properly and lots of ideas on how to move on with better parenting skills. Resiliency is so valuable. I would recommend that every parent read this book!! I have a feeling I will be rereading this book many times.

Worhty topic, well-written and applicable
Being a nerd of a new parent, I have read through many tomes and this one gets it about right. Written thoughtfully, there is applicable guidance here and good food for thought. Look forward to reading the other book.
Some of the topics can seem common-sense but it serves as a good study reminder when parenting throws curveballs. Also, this is written in intelligent adult language and doesn't dumb-down the useful psychological discussion.

Rather Obvious Advice
The authors of this book, experienced child psychologists, argue that resiliency is the most important trait to encourage in children. Even if dealing with other shortcomings or challenges, children who are resilient are able to better interact with the world around them than other children.

I heartily agree with this viewpoint, and hope that I will be able to foster a sense of resilience in my own children. This book, however, didn't have any earth-shattering advice that a thoughtful parent wouldn't have already found obvious.

It was nice to have a reminder that a parent should try to make sure to give her children more positive than negative comments, that she should make sure to encourage her children in areas where they feel successful, and should never compare children to each other. I found the stories in this book to be repetitive, though, and I found myself simply skimming the familiar advice, rather than feeling as if I were learning something new.

Becoming An Awesome Parent
The really refreshing piece of information in ths book is that our kids won't change unless we do. They are our mirrors. So really it's about how to change your parenting style. If what you're doing now is not getting a positive response you need to change what you're doing. As this book points out, this is the strategy we use in all other areas of our lives we should also use it in our parenting. This book shows you how. "Raising Resilient Children" could be called "Becoming an Awesome Parent".

Very little to do w/ resilience
I was really disappointed with this book. In general it's about building up children's self-esteem, but doesn't focus on helping children develop resilience with daily disappointments or problems (bullies, not making a soccer goal, etc.) Self esteem is very different from resilience. Instead, I'd recommend two books: Blessings of the Skinned Knee and Mindset. Blessings is based on practical/current applications from the Torah; I am not Jewish and still found this book to be very helpful/wonderful. The books don't have chapters on "resilience", but the overall info from both has been very helpful in that area.