30 Ways to Build Resilience in Children
Building resilience in children is never easy. Here’s 30 ways to build natural resilience in children:
1. Validate their emotions
2. Encourage routines in the house
3. Let children cry, it’s normal
4. Respect their boundaries
5. Talk about feelings often
6. Give them an emotion diary
7. Teach emotional words
8. Understand that actions are communication
9. Allow them to know their body and how to keep it safe
10. Give them responsibilities
11. Teach healthy eating
12. 1 hour of screen time per day
13. Practise mindfulness together
14. Love them unconditionally
15. Listen first, talk second
16. Provide positive feedback
17. Have family meetings
18. Be on the child’s team
19. Eat together
20. Create family traditions
21. Organise frequent exercise
22. Get outdoors often and get muddy
23. Be bored
24. Promote failure
25. Praise effort, not achievement
26. Use natural consequences
27. Support your child’s friendships
28. Replace yelling with teaching
29. Model honesty and integrity
30. Nurture their gifts and do not try to change them. Let them be who they are.
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