Raising resilient kids – is a big responsibility for any parents. These tips will help you in bringing up resilient kids.
Resiliency is a big personality attribute you want your kids to develop. Resilience is an attribute that your child will need to face all the challenges of life
But kids don’t automatically know how to become resilient specially when they face challenging situations as burdens we want to make everything easy for them. However, that doesn’t prepare them for the challenges of life.
Sometimes it is okay to help your child but you have to let them do their work and let them make their own decisions. For example, when your child is taking too long to eat don’t jump to feed him. Let him learn to eat on his own – even if it feels hard.
Raising resilient kids is important for their own good. You won’t be there forever for your child. Making them self-sufficient and resilient will make sure they will be able to face and overcome the challenges of life.
Here are 3 tips for raising resilient kids
Let them make mistakes
As a parent, don’t feel embarrassed if your child makes a mistake. Let him learn from that mistake. Raising resilient kids also means you let them explore and learn from the mistakes.
If you look back, you probably have learnt more from your own mistakes than a book.
But, of course, ensure their safety.
Help Kids develop coping skills
What the schools don’t teach kids is coping skills with failure. A child goes through a plethora of emotions – good bad ugly feelings. It is always good to let your child share his emotions. Teach kids to develop coping skills.
Talk to them, calm them down. Teach them deep breathing. Let them know you are there. This will help them later on in their lives.
Let them get bored
What we don’t realize while putting kids in a score of extracurricular activities is we are not giving them free time! Free time, free play is very important to let the creativity flow. Sometimes it is necessary to be without toys, books, gadgets and just be free even if you get bored.
When they get bored and have nothing to do – imagination comes into play. Nurture that.
Raising resilient kids is an important duty for a parent. Don’t overlook that.
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17 comments
They learn more from your own mistakes than a book. This is so true Tina. Books can give our kids theoritical knowledge which we not be using all the time. But what we learn hands on is what stays with us. Letting them learn on their own, at their place, giving them the freedom to pick, giving them responsibilities will make them confident.
That’s so true! Its important for a kid to feel all of these things, he needs to have a little free time to explore. He also needs to be able to develop coping skills for a well rounded childhood.
Resilience is a must have skill for kids and we can encourage it for sure. Likes your tips. We generally rush to feed kids or complete HW is they are taking too long, will be careful in future.
Yes, even I would let my daughter get bored sometimes. Then she would come up with such creative things to do while using her imagination
Yeah I leave them to play or do whatever but kids these days rarely get bored until they are 6. Then the tantrums begin. We explained to our daughter that there are many things to do at home so if she’s bored she can go to sleep. Hehe.
I am a big believer in letting kids get bored. If you keep them engaged and occupied all the time, how will they learn to think and analyze?
Yes I am same mom who let her get bore with one and see how creative she can get with it.. and at times I am surprised to see what new they can do
Resilience brings responsibilities, when we imbibe this early in the kids they also gain a sense of belongingness and responsibilities. I really like the way you have sorted out the task in three simple ways.
I always let them get bored.That helps them.find creative play ideas to get out of boredom.Its a very good tip indeed Thanks gir sharing an insightful post .
of lately due to lockdown my kid was becoming more of a monkey always clinging on to me. So yes even I am ok him getting a little bored or play all alone. I will use the other tips for sure.
These are perfect tips for raising resilient kids, we need to follow these if we want our kids to become mentally strong. Thanks for sharing!
Getting our kids ready to face the big bad world is surely a difficult task. No matter how much we want to protect them, they have to eventually learn to be self-sufficient.
Totally with you in this Tina, fir them to be resilient in the long run we can’t keep offering help when try fear to fail.
Kids can come up with loads of things to do if we just let them be. It’s important to let them figure out what to do and guide only when they need us.
Yes kids should be given some time to be bored and bring out their own creativity. My nephew is also learning this now and we found his arts skill with it
Agreed with your tips. Kids should get the chance to experience everything according to their age so that they can understand the value and importance of things .
Totally agree with your thoughts. We should give our kids the opportunity to explore and create something new and innovative.