Resilience: The Skill Your Child Needs to Learn
It’s the end of the study year. It’s the time when many parents think about their dreams and hopes for their children. It’s the time of graduation speeches, for looking back at accomplishments and making a strategy for new ones. As parents, we think about getting into good schools, excelling at athletics, getting good grades, and getting good jobs. All these are great, but resilience is something that every child needs if they are going to truly succeed in life. Resilience is the ability to get around life’s inevitable bumps and still be healthy and happy to stay on track. It’s also the ability to overcome hardship and be okay. What sometimes bothers me is the way that electronic devices have become so ubiquitous, and our present parenting culture of success and obsessing over safety may get in the way of learning resilience. Four factors help children develop resilience, according to Harvard University’s Centre on the Developing Child. They are: Supportive adult-child relationsh...