Teach Children About Resilience And Hope
Learning from the hardships we are going through and transforming what we have experienced into something that makes us grow is fundamental to achieving happiness . Teach your children about resilience to make them happy!
Resilience is the ability of a living being to adapt to a disruptive agent or an adverse state of affairs. It is therefore the ability to come out stronger from lived situations, whether they are negative or not. Teach your children resilience and educate happy future adults.
As you have read, resilience is intimately linked to happiness because it allows each person to learn from their experience and do something positive for the future. So, you like it ? Read on to find out how to educate resilient children.
Teach your children resilience
Unfortunately, resilience is not intrinsic to humans. We are not born resilient, but we learn to be resilient. It is for this reason that your role as a parent is fundamental: for your children to learn to adapt, to accept their experiences, to learn and finally to move forward.
Why is it important?
In life, we see green and unripe ones. At least that’s what the popular saying goes, and it’s quite true. Knowing how to accept the trials of life, overcome them as best as possible and grow thanks to what we have lived … All this is important to achieve happiness.
Teach your children to be resilient, to turn any situation they experience into something new and positive. Help them not to get stuck in the past and to look to the future. Show them that knowing their own strengths and weaknesses is fundamental to developing in all aspects of life.
Resilience is a form of acting out in life that achieves happiness by turning any situation into something new and improved. This is where the importance of resilience lies: it is a light of hope because no matter what happens, we can turn what has happened into something positive for us.
Teach your kids resilience: 8 tips
At the start of this article, we said that no one is born resilient. This is why the role of parents and schoolteachers is vitally important if we want to educate resilient children. Let’s see how you can help your children:
1. Lead by example
The first step to teaching resilience is to practice it! Your children will only become resilient people if you set an example for them. Remember that the children are watching us continually. Set an example and show your child how you can get the most out of every experience, making something positive for you.
2. Allow your children to be wrong
Sometimes parents are overprotective and that is not good for the kids. They need certain freedoms to experiment and make mistakes. Give your children space so that they can make mistakes because we never learn better than by making mistakes !
3. Let children face the consequences of their actions
This advice is directly linked to the previous point. Let your child make a mistake and own up to his mistake. Children need to discover that there are consequences for their actions. This is the only way for them to internalize social norms and assess what is worth it… or not!
4. Let your kids get frustrated
This is another rather common mistake: Many parents keep their children from feeling frustration. Indeed, they think that in this way, they will not suffer. But, by doing this, are we actually helping them adjust to life? By teaching resilience through personal experience and allowing our children to go through little setbacks, we also allow them to learn that they can take positive things out of every situation.
5. Help the children to think
Parents tend to give ready-made solutions. However, children must learn to solve their problems on their own, to think and to use logic. Allow your children to think for themselves and guide them to find the solution. They will feel proud of themselves!
6. Teach them that all change is an opportunity.
Sometimes the problem is how you look at it. What if you taught your child that every change, no matter how bad, can be an opportunity? This is the basis of resilience. All changes can be for the better!
7. Boost their self-esteem
A child who does not value himself and believes himself capable of anything will not be able to face the difficulties and challenges. So, stimulate the self-esteem of your children to enable them to become resilient children.
8. Love your children, and prove it to them!
Finally, the last but not the least piece of advice: love your children and show it to them with words, gestures and actions. Teach them resilience through love. Only in this way will you be able to educate your children with the hope that tomorrow they will be strong, empathetic and happy adults.
Resilience is very important today. Establish a safe environment in which your children can freely experience and develop their resilience so that nothing and no one can ever harm them.
