The Power of Your Child's Imagination: How to Transform Stress and Anxiety into Joy and Success

by Charlotte Reznick

Book Overview

Imagine your frustrated four-year-old calming her own anger with a few simple breaths. Picture your fourth grader visualizing an ice blue pillow to cool his hot headaches. Or your worried eleven-year-old improving her concentration by consulting a personal wizard to help with homework. The Power of Your Child's Imagination will show you how to empower your child with easy, effective, and creative skills for surviving-and thriving-in a stressful world...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0399535071
• ISBN13: 9780399535079
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

A School Counselor's Dream

Dr. Reznick's book, "The Power of Your Child's Imagination is such a perfect book for any school counselor. I work with the lowest performing children in the Los Angeles School District and am always searching for tools to help these children and their parents. I know they need a safe, calm, peaceful environment to help them understand the pain, grief, loss and trauma that so many experience to have a more successful and thriving emotional and academic life. So many of these children experience ADD/ADHD like symptoms as well as being so angry and acting out at home and in the classroom. I strive to bring activities and games to heighten or stimulate their imagination and to give them as many stress-free and calming moments. This book is a veritable plethora of amazing interventions that are so needed for these children and their parents. It is like I thought to myself everything I have been thinking and dreaming about that would help these kids....and Dr. Reznick put it all into words that are so reader-friendly! Brava Charlotte...Just what I needed to start my school year! I will share it with all my colleagues and friends, Sherri Jaye LMFT, PSA and Chairperson of LAUSD's Resource Fair

Every Parent Should Read this Book!

Finally a book for parents that teaches how to help your child tap into his or her creativity, inner knowing and personal power. Dr. Charlotte Reznick offers wonderful tools for helping children learn how to take responsibility for their own feelings, which is deeply empowering for the child.

Inspiring and Practical

Dr. Reznick offers very inspiring and practical tools you can teach your child or yourself for self-soothing, anger management, and coping with the ups and downs of daily living. What I like most is that she goes directly to how to use the methods and doesn't waste time like most authors who somehow feel the need to drag readers through 50-100 pages of speculation on the brain's mechanisms before they (sometimes) deliver the useful tools. Each tool is explained easily and also what to do if it doesn't work immediately with your particular child. What a gift for all of us who have very creative and very intense children.

The Power of Your Child's Imagination

Dr. Reznick's book is an invaluable gift that offers self-care tools that creates a ripple effect of healing for both parents, children and the generations to come.

A MUST HAVE

After trying everything to help my son with his stress, I finally found a solution in the techniques this book offers. My son and I have been working on them and we have seen almost instant improvement. This book reminded me that my son has all the strength within his imagination to help him with his difficulties. A must have for any parent that wishes to help his or her child.