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This piece will be tackling the topic of RESILIENCE. This is the fifth part of the article, which will deal with RESILIENCE IN CHILDREN.
Last Updated on February 4, 2021 by ELLEASH
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Hey hey my lovely entrepreneurs,
I am not what has happened to me.
I am what I choose to become.
Carl Jung
In this post, I will be writing about DEVELOPING RESILIENCE IN CHILDREN. This is something that I am also incredibly passionate about as well! Not only, because of my background in teaching, but because I am a mother.
I want my daughter to have the same, if not more, sharpened tools to navigate through life than I have.
And even if you are not a teacher, a parent, I can bet my last dollar, that you are an influential and another important adult in a child’d life.
Even if you don’t know it yet!
Childhood & Adolescence
We often associate being carefree and without any worries to childhood, but growing up is probably the hardest step in our life!
Being a child or teen definitely does not shield you from being thrown into the deep end of the dramas of life.
In fact it is quite the opposite, isn’t it?
Childhood and adolescence are 2 periods in our life that are crucial to enable us to become happy and well adjusted adults. It’s therefore important to not want to skip “steps” nor force the child into something they will later resent you for, and will definitely not learn anything from it.
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How to encourage resilience in the children in your life:
- Help them make connections with others to help them build empathy, grow their support network, and encourage resilience.
- Encourage them to help others, which can help them feel empowered.
- Maintain a daily routine to give young children a sense of safety and structure in their lives, and encourage them to develop their own routines.
- Take a break, and teach them how to take a break; show him or her that excessive worrying is unproductive and can be harmful, and encourage him or her to set aside what they are worried about at least once in a while.
- Teach them self-care, including eating healthy, exercising, getting a good amount of sleep, and having downtime to just relax and have fun.
- Help them set reasonable goals and move toward them, one step at a time; this will help him or her to focus on what they have accomplished rather than what they haven’t accomplished.
- Nurture a positive self-view in them by reminding him or her of the ways he or she has successfully handled difficulties and hardships in the past, and connect their past success with their future potential.
- Help them keep things in perspective and encourage a long-term view—especially when he or she is stuck on something negative right now.
- Look for opportunities for self-discovery for them, and show him or her how to do the same.
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And let’s not forget to teach children to accept that change is an inevitable part of living, and that we can always replace goals that have become unattainable with new, more relevant goals (APA Help Center, n.d.).
I hope these tips will help and enable you to encourage resilience in your children, or the children in your life.
Click here for the final part of this themed series.
Elle Ash xo