An expert on child development and the author of How Toddlers Thrive and Raising Resilience presents a new approach for parents to help children and teens build resilience and flourish in an unpredictable world. Dr. Klein offers parents five strategies that show children how to develop the inner resources to face adversity, adjust, and thrive, instead of falter and break down. This approach can be a lifeline for any family contending with life’s many stresses and traumas, including peer conflicts, divorce, moving, academic struggles, and larger national events.
Raising Resilience provides parents with practical guidance for instilling in their children the emotional intelligence, cognitive flexibility, and social know-how they need to manage life’s challenges, build the resources to bounce back, and create a lasting capacity for happiness. Accessible, compassionate, and authoritative, it is a timely resource that shows parents how to raise children who are motivated, resourceful, caring, and resilient—all of what’s needed in an ever-changing world.
Tovah P. Klein, Ph.D., is a psychology professor at Barnard College, Columbia University and Director of the Center for Toddler Development. 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.
All families who attend will receive a copy of Dr. Klein's book Raising Resilience.
This special event is sponsored by Mini Minds.
