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Resilience, as you may know, is the ability to recover from stressful situations. Why is it so important to teach our children to be resilient? It’s not only a skill of how to cope, but it’s also a way to be prepared for future challenges, and to learn that things may not always work out and that IT’S OK! How can we, as both caregivers and educators, teach this concept? 

• Practice self care - breathing methods, grounding techniques, mindfulness
• Be available, understanding, patient, and supportive!!
• Social support - parenting groups & asking for help!!
  • National Parent Helpline 1-855-427-2736
• Modeling positive outlooks
• Asking open ended questions
• Social-emotional practices
• Supporting hobbies and interests
• Talking about feelings and realizing it’s ok to not be ok
• Playing resilience building games
  • PBS’ Arthur
  • Life Skill Games

A child psychologist named Dr. Ginsburg realized that resilience isn’t a single path, but rather 7 components, known as the 7 C’s of resilience. You can read more about these 7 C’s HERE.

1. Competence: The ability to successfully complete tasks.
   1. How to achieve: Teach your children to be problem solvers and that even if they fail that they can try again. 
2. Confidence: The feeling of self assurance
   1. How to achieve: Give praise, self love exercises 
3. Connection: Close ties to others - family, friends, community, groups, etc.
   1. How to achieve: Creating opportunities to form close relationships, being involved in a group.
4. Character: Having the sense to know what is right and wrong
   1. How to achieve: Learning the ability to choose, modeling what is right and wrong, decision-making games, explaining ‘why’ things may be right or wrong.
5. Contribution: Ability to help or give
   1. How to achieve: Giving children opportunities to help out, checking on others, volunteer opportunities. 
6. Coping: Being able to move past stressful situations / learning to forgive self and others
   1. How to achieve: Learning coping methods & mindfulness techniques
7. Control: Feeling a sense of control over situations and feelings​​​​​​​
   1. How to achieve: Writing goals, imagining what having control might look like, planning ahead