Building Children's Resilience: One Building Block at a Time

Every parent wants their child to grow up happy, healthy, strong, kind and resilient. This pocket book aims to guide parents in their everyday decision-making to raise kids who are just that. In our ever-changing, uncertain world it is important to understand what resilience is and how to build that in our children.

The capacity for building coping and enabling abilities, as well as help-seeking strategies and tangible life skills will help your children navigate the world ahead.

This book condenses and updates material from Maggie Dent’s bestselling 2008 book, ‘Real Kids in an Unreal World’. It outlines 10 key building blocks for children birth–12 .We can build our children's strengths—one building block at a time—and we can even start before birth.