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Giving Kids Control Over Their Choices and Positioning Parents to Be Lighthouses

Giving Kids Control Over Their Choices and Positioning Parents to Be Lighthouses. Ken Ginsburg, MD, MS Ed The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Covenant House PA Kids at Hope. Giving Kids Control Over Their Decisions. Resilience.

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Giving Kids Control Over Their Choices and Positioning Parents to Be Lighthouses

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  1. Giving Kids Control Over Their ChoicesandPositioning Parents to Be Lighthouses Ken Ginsburg, MD, MS Ed The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Covenant House PA Kids at Hope

  2. Giving Kids Control Over Their Decisions

  3. Resilience • Is about learning to cope, in a positive way with life’s inevitable stressors • We might do our greatest good by raising youth with a wide repertoire of positive coping strategies

  4. Discomfort Relief Relief Positive Coping Strategies You Feel Awful!!! You Feel Awful!!! You Feel Awful!!! Stress Discomfort Discomfort Negative Coping Strategies

  5. Discomfort Relief Relief Positive Coping Strategies You Feel Awful!!! You Feel Awful!!! You Feel Awful!!! Stress Discomfort Discomfort Negative Coping Strategies

  6. Connection is the most important coping strategy

  7. Distinguishing Paper Tigers from Real tigers • Knowing When Bad Things are Temporary • Knowing When Good Things are Permanent

  8. A Stress Management Plan for Teens • (But . . . Start in Childhood, AND • It Might Just Work for grownups)

  9. Stress Management : Tackling The Problem • Making the problem manageable • Active Avoidance • Let Some things go

  10. SerenityPrayer • Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference

  11. Stress Management : Taking Care of My Body • Exercise • Fear • Anger

  12. Stress Management : Taking Care of My Body • Relaxation • Nutrition

  13. Stress Management : Taking Care of My Body • 7) Sleep • Stimulation • Cool Down Exercise Shower • Release emotion

  14. Stress Management : Managing Emotions • Instant Vacations • Releasing Emotions

  15. The Worst thing is not to be stressed . . . it is to be NUMB

  16. Stress Management Plan : Making the World Better • Contributing to the world

  17. Anything we do that supports loving, protective parenting changes the world for kids

  18. Do parents have to make a choice between play, success and happiness?

  19. Connection 101:

  20. Why does it feel like our connection is challenged during adolescence?

  21. Listening

  22. Learning to Build a High Achiever • Letting young people make mistakes • Praising effort rather than results • Grit • Building Spikes - Celebrating Unevenness

  23. Control

  24. How Much Control?

  25. Effective Monitoring

  26. We are the bordersWe are the picture on the box

  27. Independence: A Step Towards Interdependence

  28. Truly, The Greatest Gift Parents Can Give Their Children

  29. FosteringResilience.com

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