As adults, we idealize childhood as being a carefree and stress-free time. However, many young children are prone to traumas, challenges, and emotional hurts that can affect their later lives. Children struggle through a lot of stress, from struggles at home, bullying, adjusting to a new school or neighborhood, and more.
Their capability to thrive despite such challenges come from resilience skills. The good news is that this skill is something that the kids can learn. The staff at Mt. Elizabeth Academy ensures the students learn this crucial skill to adapt to different sources of stress. Helping your child become more resilient would help them manage uncertainty, anxiety, and stress in a healthy way.
Here are some tips for building resilience in children:
Making Connections
Children should be taught the significance of connecting and engaging with their peers, including listening and empathy skills. You can encourage ways they can form connections with others, like study sessions, birthday parties, video chats, phone calls, and more. Create stronger family connections to make it easy for them to talk about and share things that are bothering them.
Encouraging Them to Help Others
Children can feel empowered when they help others. Take your child to age-appropriate volunteer work or encourage them to make donations. You can even brainstorm ways with your child about how they can help other students struggling.
Establishing a Daily Routine
Establishing and maintaining a proper routine can be a source of comfort for young children. Create a routine for them with their input to make them feel in charge of their own life. However, the routine should be flexible in times of transition or distress.
Taking a Break
Believe it or not, some positive can come from anxiety. It forces us to look for solutions, be cautious, and look for red flags. However, it can easily get out of control. It is also essential to validate their feelings. When your child is feeling anxious, encourage them to focus on things that are under their control. Show them how to challenge unrealistic thoughts, and ask them what they might tell their friends who are going through the same thing they are.
Understanding the Significance of Self-Care
Self-care is not just important for adults but also for children. Self-care for them can include eating healthy, getting sufficient sleep, enjoying their favorite activity, participating in sports, singing, dancing, coloring, dressing up, or doing whatever makes them happier and calmer.
Accepting Change
Change is scary for many of us and is even more stressful for children. Help them understand that change is a part of life and change their goals isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Share stories with them about how people adapt to change, create different goals, and achieve something even better than they had anticipated.
Resilience is indeed a crucial attribute for children to develop as it contributes drastically to their academic, emotional, and social success. It helps them deal with challenging circumstances in healthy ways.
At Mt. Elizabeth Academy, we firmly believe in the power of resilience and how it plays a major role in the children’s development. Our daycare center offers after-school programs, vacation camp, pre-K, and other early learning activities for families in Acworth, Marietta, Kennesaw, and other areas. Get in touch with us today for more information.
