There is power in every word we say. That’s not just a cliché. Affirmations are more than just words, they’re power. They can heal hurts, build self-esteem, and empower us to face life with confidence and courage. In a world filled with stress, pressures, and fears, children need support and encouragement from adults—and they need to know how to affirm themselves.

This revised and updated edition of this classic makes affirmations easy to understand. Douglas Bloch leads readers step-by-step through the process of helping kids turn off the negative voice within and activate the powerful “yes!” voice. Kids learn affirmations for all kinds of situations and challenges: school and academics, athletics, facing fears, feeling angry, getting teased, being depressed, and more.

There are affirmations for specific developmental stages (from infancy through adolescence) and for special needs including learning differences, behavior disorders, and family problems. Bloch also includes affirmations to help adults deal with their own issues and better help the children in their care. If you’ve ever experienced the power, good or bad, of words, then you know how important it is to teach this power to our children. What they affirm, inside the privacy of their own minds, is what they are or will become. Help your children become strong, empathic, respectful, confident, loving people. This book, with it’s affirmations is a wonderful start.

Highly recommended.

From Booklist-
“In our society, concern for a child's emotional health should start earlier with boys than with girls, Pollack says, for a boy's problems arise from being cut off from mother's comfort when he is sent to school and from both parents' support when he reaches adolescence and supposedly must learn to "sink or swim." Both those disconnections occur because society unthinkingly observes what Pollack calls the "Boy Code."… A cogent and moving demonstration that Hamlet needs help, too.”

From Publishers Weekly-
“In a lucidly written primer for parents, Harvard Medical School psychiatry professor Pollack dismantles what he terms "the Boy Code", society's image of boys as tough, cool, rambunctious and obsessed with sports, cars and sex. These stereotypes, he argues, thwart creativity and originality in boys. Linking clinical insights to practical suggestions, Pollack advises caregivers how to help boys repair their fragile self-esteem, develop empathy and explore their sensitive sides… On balance, though, his manual is enlightening and stimulating.”

From Marguerite Kelly, The Washington Post-
“A must-read.”

From Alvin F. Poussaint, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School-
“A worthwhile book for many families…equally helpful for teachers and others who spend their days working with children.”

From John Bradshaw, author of Healing the Shame That Binds You and Homecoming-
“I recommend this book without question.”