Parenting Books To Help Kids With Anxiety and Stress

This parenting classic is as relevant today as it was when it was first published, shining a light on one of the most misunderstood trends of our time: How the influence of peers, magnified by social media and video game culture, is replacing parents in the lives of children, and what parents can do about it — now featuring a new chapter.

The definitive book on the rise of “toxic achievement culture” overtaking our kids’ and parents’ lives, and a new framework for fighting back. Packed with memorable stories and offering a powerful toolkit for positive change, Never Enough offers an urgent, humane view of the crisis plaguing today’s teens and a practical framework for how to help.

A proven approach to helping children build emotional resilience for a happier and healthier life. In Freeing Your Child from Anxiety, childhood anxiety expert Dr. Tamar Chansky shares easy, fun, and effective tools for teaching children and teens to outsmart their worries and take charge of their fears. These simple solutions can help parents protect their children from needless suffering — and ensure they have the tools to thrive today and for a lifetime.

The fourteen essential conversations to have with your tween and early teenager to prepare them for the emotional, physical, and social challenges ahead, including scripts and advice to keep the communication going and stay connected during this critical developmental window.

An urgently needed guide to help parents understand their teenagers’ intense and often fraught emotional lives — and how to support teens through the critical developmental stage — from the author of Untangled and Under Pressure.

The essential guide to parenting multiracial and multiethnic children of all ages and learning to support and celebrate their multiracial identities.

Is anxiety disrupting your life? With proven CBT-based skills and mindfulness techniques, this book can be your guide out of the spiraling stress of anxiety and get you back on track to living a happy and healthy life.

It is only by healing from injustices and dissolving our personal barriers to connection that we develop the ability to view others with compassion and to live in community with people of vastly different backgrounds and viewpoints. Incorporating mindfulness exercises, research, and Magee’s hard-won insights, The Inner Work of Racial Justice offers a road map to a more peaceful world.

From bestselling author Martha Beck, a new path to overcoming anxiety by awakening the creativity within. In Beyond Anxiety, Beck explains why anxiety is skyrocketing around you, and likely within you. She also tells you how to not only reduce your anxiety but use it to propel you into a life filled with peace, meaning, and joy. The opposite of anxiety, it turns out, is a wonderful new way of life — one that can calm and inspire us as individuals and help us become a source of healing for everything around us.

The simple way to help your kids face their fears, handle big emotions, and bolster their social skills — from the New York Times bestselling co-author of The Whole-Brain Child and a renowned play therapist. The Way of Play will help you nurture your kids and encourage them to become calm listeners, cooperative problem solvers, and respectful communicators. Just as important, it will help your whole family have more fun together and build stronger relationships.

In DBT Skills for Teens with Anxiety, licensed psychologist and DBT Certified Clinician Atara Hiller, PsyD, shares practical therapy techniques from the five skills modules of DBT: mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, interpersonal effectiveness, and Walking the Middle Path — to help you find calm and control even when life feels unbearably hard.

A must-have guide for helping your child conquer worry, fear, and overwhelm. Psychotherapists and parent coaching team Ashley Graber and Maria Evans introduce SAFER Parenting — a simple yet powerful five-step approach designed to help children ages 6 – 12 regulate emotions and build lasting self-esteem. Raising Calm Kids In a World of Worry shows how despite having plenty of reasons to worry, you can become a more confident parent and help your child find ease when they need it most.

Now in paperback, a timely guide for mindful parenting and family connectivity. Filled with the wisdom and insight from the world’s top parenting consultants, therapists, pediatricians, and child educators, this book offers you a path to embracing conscious parenting as a way of life right now rather than some day in the future, helping your children build a foundation of confidence, a deep sense of self, emotional and spiritual resiliency, and mental fortitude.

Inspiring advice for navigating life’s ups and downs, and finding ways to grow every day — from the New York Times bestselling author of Set Boundaries, Find Peace and Drama Free.

Learn how to create a lifetime of connection, trust, and open communication with your children through connection-focused parenting. Harwood’s accessible approach helps everyone form secure and close relationships with their kids, which helps them develop resilience, confidence, and form close relationships in the future.

Integrating self-compassion into family life is a profound gift that parents can give to their children and to themselves. Here you will learn how to make self-compassion an active practice for the whole family — with over 70 activities, crafts, meditations, and games.