Top Ten Tips for Nurturing Resilience

1. Allow your child to make mistakes, it’s a learning opportunity

2. Praise specifically and honestly, notice when they are doing something right

3. Use positive language and help them reframe negative thoughts

4. Allow them to make decisions, understand the link between actions and consequences

5. Acknowledge big emotions, label them to help develop awareness and emotional intelligence

6. Practice self-soothing strategies and role model them together

7. Acknowledge the small steps to success which encourages a can-do attitude

8. Have high expectations and trust that they are more capable than you think

9. Give them time and responsibility to do things for themselves

10. Don’t give quick fixes allow them to become problem solvers

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