When people have kids, someone inevitably tells them something like: “They don’t come with instruction manuals” or “There’s no degree in parenthood.” Mental Toughness Coach Andrew Wittman’s groundbreaking new book Seven Secrets of Resilience for Parents is the closest thing to filling that gap.

We’ve all heard that kids are resilient. But what about the parents? The instant you become a parent, responsible for another life, you know you are in over your head. Parenting is a crash course in resilience, causing most of us to land flat on our backs wondering how we’re ever going to get up again.

Wittman brings his signature insight to redefine what it means to be a successful parent in his latest offering, Seven Secrets of Resilience for Parents: Navigating the Stress of Parenthood (November 2018). The eyes are off the kids and now on you to boost your own abilities to handle stress, conflict and the everyday challenges of life with kids.

In Seven Secrets, discover how to:

• go from being an emotional reactor to a reasonable responder
• guide your child through the stressors of peer pressure, cliques, bullies and backstabbers
• steer through the pitfalls of dealing with rivalries: sibling, frenemies and even dueling sets of grandparents
• create harmony in the home so that it becomes a sanctuary from stress not a cause of it
• maintain your poise and calm, and smoothly sail through even the most heated arguments with your child
• stop flying off the handle and keep your composure and dignity while correcting your child’s behavior
• create and sustain a balance of the job, finances, sleep, nutrition, and parenting

When kids see their parents model these behaviors, they follow in their footsteps and become balanced and well-rounded. Both parents and kids discover their authentic selves in the process. “Wittman’s book is both challenging and consoling as it handles the complicated, hard-truth aspects of parenting. His work guides us with straight-forward knowledge and high-impact strategies creating parents who are present, forgiving and disciplined- and who now fully understand that as the leaders of our family we must first be those things to ourselves. Well worth the read!” says Sandra Beck, Host of Military Mom Talk Radio.