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Building emotionally resilient jarjums

From time to time jarjums can experience challenges or difficult circumstances. These things are all a part of life and for emotionally resilient children they can be a chance to learn, develop and grow.

Emotional resilience is the ability to recover after challenges or difficult times, such as starting at a new school or kindergarten, moving house, or more serious experiences like family illness or passing of a loved one.

Jarjums build resilience over time through experience. The more emotionally resilient they are, the faster they can recover from setbacks and get back to living their lives. Additionally, once children have overcome one difficult experience they feel more confident and capable to handle the next tough situation that comes their way.

Emotionally resilient children are often great at problem solving and learning new skills as they are more willing to try again when things don’t go their way the first time. They also have a better understanding that uncomfortable feelings, such as anxiety, sadness, fear or frustration don’t last forever.

The more emotionally resilient a jarjum is the less likely they are to avoid problems or deal with them in unhealthy ways, like getting defensive or aggressive.

Children learn resilience through experience and observation. Each time your jarjum sees you try again, let anger go, or think positively in difficult situations, they learn that they can do the same.

Here are some other ways you can help build your child’s resilience:

  • Try not to solve every minor problem or disappointment for them. If your jarjum doesn’t get their way, talk to them about how they feel instead of trying to fix the problem.
  • Avoid predicting and preventing problems for your child. This could be letting your child hand in homework that is incorrect or not replacing a toy that is broken. Allowing them to overcome small challenges builds their resilience for bigger setbacks.
  • Teach your jarjums to identify and manage strong emotions. For example, your jarjums may be worried about a sick family member. You could say, “I can see you’re really concerned, and it’s okay to be worried. We’re doing everything we can to help him get better”.
  • Praise your child for trying, no matter the result, to teach them to have another go when things don’t work out the first time they try something. You could say something like “I’m proud of you for finishing the race” or “Well done for giving it another go.”
  • Build their self-compassion. Self-compassion helps your child deal with disappointment, failures or mistakes by being kind to themselves.
  • Help your child to develop problem solving skills in an age-appropriate way.

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