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The Resilient Child: Seven Essential Lessons for Your Child's Happiness and Success

George S. Everly, Jr., PhD, with Sloane Brown
DiaMedica (2008)
ISBN 9780979356452
Reviewed by Kam Aures for RebeccasReads (10/08)

“The Resilient Child: Seven Essential Lessons for your Child’s Happiness and Success” is written by an interesting duo. First, we have George S. Everly, Jr., Ph.D., “one of the ‘founding fathers’ of modern resiliency and stress management. He is on the faculties of The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. He has also been an expert consultant with FEMA, the FBI National Academy, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control.” Being the intelligent man that he is, he took on Sloane Brown as a co-author to help translate his words and thoughts into a language that the common person could understand. Brown, who works in media, has been married to a psychologist for over 20 years and because of this she has become very proficient at translating professional speak into a language that the average person can comprehend. The resulting work is an easy-to-read and clearly understandable guide to paving the road for your children’s happiness and success. In the book, Everly presents to us seven lessons that will help to teach our children how to be resilient and how to build inner strength. Each lesson is presented in a simple format and is filled with plenty of supporting examples. In order to solidify your knowledge of the lessons learned, there are numerous “Homework” sections throughout the book. I found these sections very helpful as they create pauses in the book that allow you to reflect and to take Everly’s words and apply them to your own situations. In an age where children are under a lot of stress, I think this book is an important one to help avoid the possible negatives that could go along with that stress. As the mother of two young children, I found Everly’s advice to be informative and helpful. I hope that I am able to apply his lessons to our daily life in order to help my children grow to be strong and resilient. Although small in size at only 136 pages, “The Resilient Child” is chock full of important information and advice that I feel would be beneficial to any parent in raising their children to live happy and successful lives.

    

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