Resilience will give your child the core skills they need to navigate difficult scenarios and give them a lot more confidence and the willingness to try new things. It also helps a child when they have to manage lots of different problems – a common exercise children will take on at a young age.
How to Raise a Resilient Child
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In this guide, we take a look through the ways your child can become more resilient and focused in their skills.
Give your child a sense of independence
Being independent will help with all elements of resilience. For one, you have to learn to figure things out on your own, or at least know what to do in certain scenarios. To make your child feel that they have their independence you can try all sorts of things.
For instance, we recommend giving your child chores from a young age to get them used to having responsibility. If you have a dog, ask your child to walk the dog once they feel comfortable going out on their own. Encourage your child to head out with their friends and make new ones, or to take up many of the extracurricular activities they will have at their school.
Let your child make the decisions
Sometimes your child will feel their decisions are going to be dictated by what their parents suggest. Leaning on you too much can cause problems later on down the line, which is why having decisions made by themselves will give them the skills to be a lot more resilient. Have your child make choices throughout their day all of the time – from choosing what to eat for dinner, and what film to watch together to trying new activities or how to resolve an argument.
Pose different problems for your child to solve
There will always be problems for your child to figure out and navigate as they grow older. It’s important to give your child the opportunities in these areas where you can, and it will help them a lot more in overcoming problems in school life and in outside situations. Make the time for your child to try lots of different scenarios to test their confidence and ability to fix lots of different issues.
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