Empower your child's inner resources & resilience with common sense guidance rooted in research.
Child development expert Dr. Tovah Klein gives parents and professionals the confidence they need to help children and teens build resilience and thrive in an unpredictable world.
Accepting Uncertainty
Resilience is an outcome of the care parents provide every single day, coupled with the kindness, attention, and reactions they show in response to what their child needs. Nurturing resilience then becomes an everyday opportunity
Discover the Pillars of Resilience
Learn the five pillars of your child’s resilience, presented alongside success stories and numerous practical strategies that parents can use in the here and now to help their child build the capacities that undergird resilience.
Build Emotional and Social Skills
By nurturing your relationship with your child, you ultimately enable them to become their full selves—independent, resourceful people who are caring and compassionate toward others and able to handle the ups and downs of life and thrive.
Empower your child’s inner resources and resilience with research-based guidance
We all struggle with mitigating the effects of rampant uncertainty in our day-to-day lives, especially when it threatens the wellbeing of our children. With Raising Resilience, Dr. Tovah Klein—child development psychologist and author of the perennial bestseller How Toddlers Thrive—gives parents the confidence they need to help children and teens build resilience, manage adversity, and flourish in an unpredictable world.
Every family is different and every child is unique, but what never changes is a child’s need for a stable caregiver relationship they can rely on. Dr. Klein provides actionable strategies, illustrative stories, and conversation prompts in this straightforward guide, rooted in research, that enables families to find the relationship-centered solutions that work best for them. Children can then develop five specific resources to face adversity, adjust, and thrive on their journey to become motivated, self-assured, and compassionate adults.
Wise and hopeful,
Raising Resilience
is a lifeline for every family contending with life’s many stresses and traumas—from the most commonplace to the most devastating—including peer conflicts, divorce, family tensions, death, moving, academic struggles, and larger personal and national events. Parents and caregivers will build stronger relationships with their children as they instill in them the emotional intelligence, cognitive flexibility, and social know-how they need to manage life’s challenges and create a lasting capacity for meaningful, happy lives.
About Tovah
Tovah P. Klein, Ph.D. is a psychology professor at Barnard College, Columbia University; Director of the Center for Toddler Development; and author of Raising Resilience: How to Help Our Children Thrive in Times of Uncertainty and How Toddlers Thrive: What Parents Can Do Today for Children Ages 2-5 to Plant the Seeds of Lifelong Success. In her roles as a researcher and professor and in direct care with parents and children for over thirty years, Klein has helped to define what every child needs to thrive, regardless of their life situations. Working worldwide with programs addressing the needs of children, she is highly sought after as a developmental expert on a range of timely topics and an advisor to children's media and organizations, including National Geographic Kids, Apple TV+, The Children's Museum of Manhattan, the Hunts Point Alliance for Children, Room to Grow, and Ubuntu Pathways South Africa. She lives in New York City with her family.
“Rarely does someone with so much knowledge write in a way that is so accessible and heartwarming. What Tovah has created will help every parent stand on their own loving ground, assured that they are creating the foundations for their child to grow into an adult who will have a deep sense of purpose and the will to effect much needed change.”
—Kim John Payne, author of Simplicity Parenting, Beyond Winning, and The Soul of Discipline
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Pre-Order Raising Resilience today and download "The You Factor Journal" for free
The collective personal history of relationships and family dynamics matters because it plays into how we relate to and interact with our children on a daily basis as well as messages we convey to them about people, themselves, and life.
It affects our expectations about what makes them happy, how we think they should act, and what we define as goals for them. "The You Factor Journal" is a collection the reflective questions in Raising Resilience so that you can spend more time with them and use this space (or a separate notebook or the notes section of your phone) for further dedicated reflection, to become more aware of the factors that you are bringing to the relationship with your child.
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"Researched and relatable, warm and wise, Raising Resilience is the book that parents and caregivers have been waiting for. Dr. Tovah Klein brilliantly translates decades of experience into a practical guide for raising adaptable children who can draw on internal and external resources to handle whatever comes their way. Whether you have a toddler or a teenager, this book is for you."
—Lisa Damour, PhD, author of Untangled, Under Pressure, and The Emotional Lives of Teenagers
“Raising Resilience will guide you in raising a child who feels secure in their relationship with you, knows how to navigate their own feelings, and not only adapts to challenges or traumas, but even thrives after them.”
—Richard C. Schwartz, PhD, founder of Internal Family Systems and author of No Bad Parts
“In these uncertain times, there is no more important book than Raising Resilience. There is so much talk about resilience and what builds resilience, yet Dr. Klein cuts through the noise and brings the exact right expertise for these times. Her research is both intuitive and mind blowing. Raising Resilience is a must read!”
—Eve Rodsky,
New York Times
bestselling
author of
Fair Play
"Few parenting books are grounded in the science and first-hand experience that informs Raising Resilience. Tovah Klein, Ph.D, is a trusted expert in childhood development and her depth of knowledge radiates in this book.."
—Sian L. Beilock, President of Dartmouth, author of Choke
“In Raising Resilience, Tovah presents invaluable tools and cutting-edge research, shedding light on resilience with an unparalleled perspective in child development. This is an essential must-read for anyone who interacts with children."
—Tamron Hall, Emmy-award winning TV host, journalist and bestselling author
"Dr. Klein dives right into the areas where parents are lost or confused. With her decades of experience in teaching children ways of being, she lights the way for lives of greater resilience and fulfillment."
—Lisa Miller, PhD, New York Times bestselling author of The Spiritual Child and The Awakened Brain
"With relatable examples, sample scripts, and practical advice, Tovah gives modern parents confidence in nurturing their relationship with their kids at every stage. In a complex world, Raising Resilience made me feel ready to handle life's challenges and daily stress with simple language and greater understanding."
— Neha Ruch, author of The Power Pause: How To Take A Career Break For Kids and Come Back Stronger Than Ever
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"Secrets from the woman they call the TODDLER WHISPERER."
—Good Morning America
New research indicates that the seeds for adult success are actually planted in the toddler years, ages two to five. In How Toddlers Thrive, child psychologist and director of the renowned Barnard Center for Toddler Development Dr. Tovah P. Klein cracks the preschooler code, revealing what you can do to help your toddler grow into a fulfilled child and adult—while helping you and your toddler live more happily together, every day.
Dr. Klein’s research and firsthand work with thousands of toddlers explains why the toddler brain is best suited to laying the foundation for success. New science reveals that drivers such as resilience, self-reliance, selfregulation, and empathy are more critical to success than simple intelligence. Dr. Klein explains what you can do today to instill these key qualities in your toddler during this crucial time, so they are on track and ready to learn when they enter school at age five.
How Toddlers Thrive explains why the toddler years are different from any other period during childhood, what is happening in children’s brains and bodies at this age that makes their behavior so turbulent, and why your reaction to their behavior—the way you speak to, speak about, and act toward your toddler— holds the key to a successful tomorrow and a happier today. This provocative new book will inspire you to be a better parent and give you the tools to help you nurture your child’s full potential. Stop fighting with your child and start enjoying every minute of your time with them . . . while planting the seeds of happiness and success that will last a lifetime.
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