Parenting Your Stressed Child

Childhood is one of the most stressful periods in life as children have limited emotional resources for managing their feelings in times of stress.Parenting Your Stressed Child helps parents, teachers, and school counselors identify signs of stress in their children and teach them simple mindfulness skills for staying resilient and calm in the face of stress, including breath awareness exercises, mindful movement, progressive muscle relaxation, visualization, loving-kindness, and counting your blessings. Teachers and school counselors will find that these skills help kids focus on their schoolwork and stay calm when they feel distressed. Parents can practice modeling these skills and incorporate them into their own lives in order to improve their children's ability to tolerate stress, both learning and teaching the art of resilience, a character trait that will stay with both parents and children for a lifetime.

"Easy-to-read, practical tips tested through personal experience and illustrated with inspiring stories. I will recommend this book to families interested in learning how to use mindful practices to help kids master stress." --Kathi Kemper, MD, MPH, FAAP, author of Mental Health Naturally and The Holistic Pediatrician, "I heartily recommend this warm-hearted and easy-to-use book. Pediatrician Michelle Bailey offers her readers a variety of methods for accessing the power of mindfulness to manage stress and cultivate happiness and well-being. Any parent of a stressed-out child should find something useful and sustaining here." --Jeffrey Brantley, MD, DFAPA, author of Calming Your Anxious Mind and founder and director of the mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) program at Duke Integrative Medicine in Durham, NC, "Michelle Bailey has created a highly applicable and practical hands-on book for parents raising children in the twenty-first century. Not only will the skills in this book be helpful to children, but they will also benefit the parents themselves. It is with great pleasure that I recommend this book." --Gina M. Biegel, MA, LMFT, psychotherapist and author of The Stress Reduction Workbook for Teens , "This book is written in friendly, accessible language. It offers parents and children proven skills for dealing with stress and creating good mental health." --Amy Saltzman, MD, director of Still Quiet Place and the Association for Mindfulness in Education

Michelle Bailey is a pediatrician who teaches mindfulness-based stress reduction skills to children in Duke Children's Healthy Lifestyles program. She was trained in Andrew Weil's Fellowship Program in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona. She directs educational programs for medical professionals at Duke Integrative Medicine in Durham, NC.