Your Kids Are Capable

How to Teach Your Kids the Strengths, Skills, and Strategies to Build Resilience

 
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Kids Are in Crisis

Not only has their mental health declined significantly, but they have also become more socially anxious and isolated. Technology and social media are compounding the crisis.

1 in 3 teenagers experience anxiety disorders
20% of kids 12-17 had a major depressive episode last year
30+ years of counseling experience between authors

Something Has Got to Change

In over thirty years of counseling kids and families, we have never been more concerned. But we also firmly believe there is a better way—a more capable way. For you both.

We believe that capable parents raise capable kids. Kids who are allowed and encouraged to take healthy, age-appropriate risks. Kids who can name and navigate their emotions. Kids who feel trusted and deeply connected to parents who love them.

✓ Understand why kids today struggle with resilience and what's driving the crisis
✓ Learn practical coping skills and strategies you can teach your children
✓ Discover how to balance attunement with boundaries
✓ Build competence through flexibility, perseverance, humility, and gratitude

What We Want You to Know

Sturdy is better than successful.

We want kids to develop internal strength that lasts, not external achievements that fade.

Healthy is more important than happy.

When happiness is the goal, kids get too much power. When health is the goal, they get what they need.

Resilience lasts longer than relief or rescue.

When we rescue kids from discomfort, we rob them of the chance to develop their own coping abilities.

Capable has more weight than confident.

Learned competence is costly, but it's lasting. It's deeper than confidence could ever be.

Meet the Authors

David Thomas

LMSW

Director of Family Counseling at Daystar Counseling in Nashville, TN. David has spent three decades counseling boys and men, and is a bestselling author and speaker on raising emotionally healthy kids.

Sissy Goff

LPC-MHSP

Director of Child and Adolescent Counseling at Daystar Counseling in Nashville, TN. With 30+ years of experience counseling girls and families, Sissy is the author of numerous books on raising resilient kids.

Join Us on Tour

We're hitting the road to share the message of Capable with families across the country.

Apr 20 Nashville (Franklin), TN COTC
Apr 23 Atlanta, GA North Point Church
Apr 24 High Point, NC Community Bible Church
Apr 27 Morristown (Knoxville), TN Manley Baptist Church
Apr 28 Birmingham, AL Canterbury United Methodist Church
Apr 30 Oklahoma City, OK Emmaus Baptist Church
May 1 Dallas, TX Park Cities Baptist Church
May 2 Austin, TX Lake Hills Church
May 3 Houston (Missouri City), TX Houston's First Baptist Church - Sienna

Pre-Order Capable Today

When you pre-order Capable, you'll receive exclusive bonuses as our thank you for joining us early as we help families grow resilience—together.

✓ Full Audiobook — Listen to Capable read by the authors
✓ 3 Free Chapters — From our kids companion workbook, I Am Capable
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For Parents and Kids

Capable equips parents with the knowledge and tools. I Am Capable gives kids hands-on activities to build their own resilience.