| | | When you’re a kid, everything is a tragedy. Your grilled cheese has the crust on? The horror. Can’t assemble that Lego set? Might as well stomp up and down. As a parent, you can’t change this. What you can do is teach your kid how to bounce back from their daily struggles so that, later on in life, when the stakes are higher, they know what to do. Because resilience is a behavior learned through explicit lessons and examples, one that teaches kids how to better handle stress, understand that rejection is not a comment on their entire existence, and view setbacks as things that don’t need to sideline them for good. Teaching resilience is critical to the long-term wellbeing of children, but it must be offered with emotional support and responsive parenting — otherwise kids may be wracked with debilitating anxiety or struggle to succeed. |
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