Raising Our Children to Be Resilient

Today's children cannot avoid a constant stream of images and accounts of frightening events: wars, terrorist attacks, school shootings, and the threat of nuclear and biological attacks. The omnipresence of the media means that children are intimately exposed to suffering and trauma in a way not experienced by earlier generations. In this timely and much-needed book, Linda Goldman addresses the many frightening events that impact our children by providing the reader with a seamless mixture of theory and practice garnered from her extensive experience in the field. Raising Our Children to Be Resilient includes trauma resolution techniques and case studies, discussions of the respective roles played by parents, teachers and the larger community as well as additional resources for those in a position to help children who have been traumatized. The goal of Raising Our Children to Be Resilient is exactly what its title promises: to help children through their pain and confusion and guide them into a flexible and compassionate adulthood.