Children in their early ages are often sensitive and have not yet developed appropriate emotional regulation strategies. They tend to be affected by everything going on around them. It could be anything in school, parents, home, etc. Being sensitive is good, but being over sensitive towards the changes would create stress and a lot of associated problems with them. It is important for parents to help their children become more resilient. Children need to develop the skills to fight back when coping with changes. They must be capable of moving on and taking healthy risks in life.
Here are some steps that can create resilience in children. You need to work with your child so that they can become healthy and optimistic individuals rather than turning to the stressful and anxious ones.
Emotional connection must be established
At an early age, you need to instigate ability in your kids to connect with the loved ones and share their problems and future plans with others. They must be sure that they have someone at their back. For that, try and involve them in one to one conversations where you discuss important things going on in life. This leads them to seek help when they need it and thus can save them from the emotional breakdown.
Encourage risk-taking
Risk-taking is essential to achieve something bigger and face challenges of life. Encouraging them to take calculated risk would allow them to get out of their comfort zone and know themselves. In order to ensure the risk-taking ability, you can encourage them to be involved in extra-curricular activities or get in touch with new people and be friends with them. Such an attitude would make them develop a personality who is open to coping with challenges.
Problem-solving must be taught
Problem-solving has a complete mechanism. You need to teach your child about it. They should know how to brainstorm for a solution or find the root cause of the problem. This will make them more resilient, and they’ll be able to know how to deal with their own problems instead of stressing over them.
Make them optimistic
Being optimistic induces positive emotions in you. So, teaching them to be optimistic can make them positive about everything they have. This will make them a brighter person who’ll know that every problem has a solution, and there is a way out of everything. Thus helping them be resilient, which would improve the standards of their lives in the long run.
Develop a habit of exercising
Exercising is a great way of strengthening yourself physically. At the same time, it can provide a gateway to the negative energy; thus the kids can vent it out and focus on the positive energy to deal with the problems that they are facing in their life.
Development of resilience in the child is important to make them a strong individual. This is why you must be taking practical steps to ensure that the kids are flexible enough to handle problems and challenges in life.