Raising Resilient Children

We don’t need to change the world so our kids don’t face challenge, pain, difficulty and failure. for our children.

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 We don’t need to change our children to conform to a difficult and challenging world.

There is nothing wrong with children facing pain, challenges and failure. Those situations and emotions are part of the human experience. There is nothing wrong with this WHEN THEY HAVE A SAFE PLACE TO LAND and THEY LEARN HOW TO BUILD THAT FOR THEMSELVES AS THEY BECOME ADULTS. 

If they learn it at home, then they know how to replicate it when they go back out into the world. This is where the kitchen table conversations come into play.  We need to teach children how to be resilient in a challenging world. They will know that it is hard and that they have the tools to handle it.

Let’s teach our children to know how to build relationships that will sustain them.

Relationships with family and friends. Find people that will show you that you are enough. People that know who you are and believe in you.

This will help sustain our children while facing a challenging world. To never feel so entitled that you don’t believe you should have to face challenges.

 Instead know how to face challenges, failure and heartbreak. Children need to know how to go home, find reassurance they need and then enter back into the world ready to do it again. Kids should know what failure feels like and then go back and prove the other people wrong.