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Tables of Contents for The Optimistic Child
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Part One: Why Children Need Optimism
1
26
1. The Promissory Note
1
9
2. From the First Step to the First Date
10
9
3. Building the Team
19
8
Part Two: Where Boomer Child Rearing Went Wrong
27
22
4. The Self-Esteem Movement
27
10
5. The Epidemic of Depression
37
12
Part Three: Is Your Child an Optimist or a Pessimist?
49
66
6. The Fundamentals of Optimism
49
18
7. Measuring Optimism
67
28
8. Where Optimism Comes From
95
20
Part Four: How to Raise Children to Optimism and Mastery
115
162
9. The Penn Prevention Program
115
18
10. Changing Your Child's Automatic Pessimism
133
29
11. Changing Your Child's Explanatory Style
162
32
12. Disputing and Decatastrophizing
194
37
13. Boosting Your Child's Social Skills
231
46
Part Five: The Children of the Twenty-first Century
277
26
14. The Pyramid of Optimism: Babies, Toddlers, and Preschoolers
277
18
15. The Limits of Optimism
295
8
Notes
303
14
Acknowledgments
317
6
Index
323