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Raising Anti-Doomers

How to Bring Up Resilient Kids Through Climate Change and Tumultuous Times

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Pub Date Aug 19 2025 | Archive Date Sep 19 2025

Description

A guide to talk to your kids about tough, existential topics like climate change, war, pandemics, and more, in order to create a healthy home, and process your emotions so that you can take meaningful action. 

Everyone—especially young children, teenagers and young adults—now reports higher levels of anxiety than ever before. Yet there's no playbook for parenting today. From the climate crisis to gun violence to political upheaval to racism, parenting in these times means bearing witness to chronic levels of uncertainty amidst societal and planetary transformation. Many are succumbing to fears and despair by becoming cynical “Doomers” (those who are extremely pessimistic or fatalist about global problems such as climate change and pollution).    

In Raising Anti‑Doomers, psychotherapist Ariella Cook‑Shonkoff reveals that Doomerism is nothing more than fear or despair gone wild. We have a choice in breeding this response further into our culture—or not. Her book helps parents help themselves, and in doing so, help children, and future generations. Ultimately, when we reset our parenting dials to respond to present day needs and circumstances, we breathe hope back into the world by raising resilient generations to come—this book offers that hope at a time when we are desperately in need.
A guide to talk to your kids about tough, existential topics like climate change, war, pandemics, and more, in order to create a healthy home, and process your emotions so that you can take...

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ISBN 9780306833571
PRICE $30.00 (USD)
PAGES 288

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Sometimes you really need to pause and think about the world our kids are currently growing up in… going through a pandemic, and constant fears of something like that happening again. World constantly being on the brink of world war three… On top of other natural disasters. 

When I was younger, I remember sitting in a rocking chair… during the 89 San Francisco earthquake. And I spent years holding on to that fear, that it was going to happen again… and I did not speak to anyone about those fears. And I worry my kids are doing the same thing, cramming all those fears deep down. 



This book is like talking to a friend. Someone who understands you. I love all the parent activities, crafts and pauses. It seems trivial, but it is so important to take a minute. There are so many amazing suggestions in this book for parenting, but also self care for yourself. Because you have to take care of yourself too. There’s also guides for family bonding, which is so important in this day and age!

It truly is a great book full of excellent ideas and resources. Highly recommend.

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