Bounce Back: How to Be a Resilient Kid - Hardcover

Winner of the Gelett Burgess Children's Book Award, Motivation and Inspiration Winner of the 2017 National Indie Excellence Award for Juvenile Nonfiction "Like mastering a sport, learning to deal with adversity and disappointment requires practice. Moss, a psychologist, urges readers to become more empowered by taking control of their reactions to stress. Self-assessment quizzes appear throughout, asking readers to think about how they manage expectations, regulate emotions, maintain perspective, and reach out for help when needed. Sidebars examining how kids handled difficult circumstances (based on real-life examples) serve as points of comparison and reference, while readers can put concrete strategies, like using positive "self-talk" and breathing exercises, into immediate use. In addition to covering common stressors like school, extracurriculars, and relationships, Moss addresses how to cope with significant events like the death of a loved one, highlighting that tools of resilience can be used to confront obstacles both minor and major."--Publisher's Weekly

Think of a bouncing ball. When a bouncing ball hits the ground, it bounces back. That's what resilience means - the ability to bounce back from tough times. Some people seem to just automatically bounce back. But the truth is that resilience is not something you are born with or not - it can be learned. Bounce Back will help you find your bounce using cool quizzes, lots of advice, and practical strategies that build up resiliency skills. You'll learn how to: get to know yourself better understand your emotions coach yourself with self-talk calm yourself when you are upset deal with decisions, disappointments, and new challenges handle situations that are under your control negotiate, compromise, and navigate social conflict scope with or adjust to serious sources of stress ask for help and guidance And much more! Being motivated to learn resiliency skills is a great first step toward acquiring them! This book will help you to be more resilient and keep on bouncing back!