Resilience: A skill your child really needs to learn (and what you can do to help)

"Resilience is the ability to overcome hardship and be okay. It’s the ability to navigate life’s inevitable bumps and still be happy and healthy and stay on track. What worries me sometimes is that our current parenting culture of achievement and obsessing over safety — and the way that electronic devices have become so ubiquitous — may get in the way of learning resilience.

According to Harvard University’s Center on the Developing Child, there are four factors that help children develop resilience."...

• Supportive adult-child relationships
• A sense of self-efficacy and perceived control
• Strong adaptive skills and self-regulatory capacities
• Being able to mobilize sources of faith, hope, and cultural traditions

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