Resilient Individuals Needed: The Importance of Teaching Your Child to be Resilient
by Are you thinking about what are the key aspects of educating your children? Here’s one of them.
Resilience is a concept brought from physical sciences to social sciences. This concept stands for the ability to adapt to an impact instead of braking.
In physical sciences this characteristic is valuable, especially in constructions, for the materials that have the capacity to absorb an impact without breaking.
In human sciences Resilience was adopted to describe personality factors that can make someone able to adapt to the constant changes of the environment.
This characteristic has a special importance to equip our children with the abilities to positively cope with adverse situations.
Investigations made in this field show that some children have the unexplainable ability to deal with adversities, overcoming difficult situations in a positive manner.
So, why is this one fundamental aspect of the education we give to our children?
The answer is simple. The more resilient our children become, the more easily they will be able to walk through an obstacle with no aversive results. The more resilient one is, the more competence he will have to learn and find new answers, whatever the obstacles may be.
And how can we teach our child to be resilient?
Again, the answer is simple. You act based on a simple ground: We cannot sometimes control what happens to us, but we can always control how we respond to it.
Accepting this, and mostly, living trough it requires a creative thinking based on strong self-esteem and self-concept.
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