Build your child's psychological resilience

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To help children build psychological resilience is not an easy process. However, by allowing children to face challenges on their own and develop strategies to deal with them will help them become more confident and independent.

1. What is psychological resilience?

Psychological resilience is the ability of a child to adjust to, adapt to, or overcome physical and mental events in life. Psychological self-healing is extremely important, because no one can avoid unforeseen challenges or adversities. When your child has psychological resilience, it will help them be healthier, more confident and more resilient to stressful difficulties or challenges that may strike at any time.

2. How to assess children's psychological resilience?

Parents can gauge their child's psychological resilience by observing their child's ability to cope with stress. For example, a child's reaction to seeing or witnessing a rather scary scene in a book, TV show, or in real life. In addition, you can also observe how your child will react when given a task that is important to them.
Overall, each child's biological response to stress plays an important role in a child's level of psychological recovery. Some children have a more sensitive response to stress, while others are more resilient.
Your child's ability to adapt and grow in the face of challenges can also be shaped by his or her experiences and relationships. Stressful experiences, such as the loss of a loved one or chronic illness can weigh heavily on a child's psyche. However, having positive, supportive relationships will help your child increase her ability to endure and overcome those stresses. This situation is likened to a balance, where stressors are put on one side of the scale, and positive relationships are on the other side. When balancing the two sides of the balance, it will help the baby have the motivation to recover psychologically, towards better and healthier things, although the stress cannot completely disappear.

3. How to build your child's psychological resilience?

Whatever your child's level of psychological recovery, there are a few things you can do to help your child practice and strengthen these abilities.
Encourage children to form positive relationships:
Having the support of a committed and adult person, whether it is a parent, teacher or caregiver, can help a child feel that they have the necessary motivation to overcome adversity. This connection is like a protective space, helping children escape the stress of the outside world and grow up healthy.
Furthermore, these relationships also act as a support during a time when children are building skills, such as concentration, problem solving, self-control, and self-control. stress. As the child begins to gradually become more self-healing and stable, this "support" will be slowly removed until the child can become fully independent.
In addition, children will also enjoy certain benefits when there are many supportive relationships, including grandparents, parents, teachers, coaches or friends. Ideally, parents should try to come up with ways to help their children strengthen these positive relationships, or build other supportive relationships for their children.

Promote core beliefs:
To help children develop psychological resilience, you should help them better understand a few things:
Encourage children to make their own decisions: in some cases In certain cases, you should let children experience the results of their own decisions. If parents always make all the decisions themselves, children may develop the idea that what they do doesn't seem to matter. Children may feel that their parents are questioning their ability to make their own decisions. For example, if your child has confirmed that he or she has studied well for a test, you should let the test results prove that your child is right or wrong. As children make more decisions on their own, they will become wiser, more confident, and more resilient to setbacks.
Failure is a part of life: if children see failure as an opportunity to learn rather than give up, they will be more likely to try new things and become more confident. Parents should often encourage their children with praise and praise for their positive deeds. If your child has just participated in an activity and wants to stop because he doesn't feel good enough, you should encourage him to continue participating for a certain period of time. This will strengthen the child's will to "find it difficult but not give up".
Help children discover strengths: parents should help children discover and develop their unique strengths, and at the same time look for opportunities to promote them. Using one's strengths to help others can be a confidence booster.

Develop a mindset: life is rarely a series of successes. As your child gets older, you can help him accomplish his larger and more complex goals in life. Although there will be many stumbles, parents should become an effective "assistant" to help their children get up and move on with the challenges ahead. You should help your child understand that immediate success is not always the goal, and that failure is not something to be feared or avoided. Instead, help your child see failure as a normal part of learning and trying new things. To do that, you need to encourage your child to try new experiences to increase his confidence and maturity.
Let your child learn on his own: allow your child to learn from failure and let him experience it. Unless your child is facing a situation where his or her safety is at stake, your intervention is necessary and appropriate. However, if your child doesn't finish their homework on time, for example, you should let them face the consequences on their own. This will help children establish their own rules and improve their actions in a more positive direction.
Nurturing children's emotions is necessary, however, children in the developmental stage are also prone to respiratory problems, respiratory infections, skin diseases and infections. gastrointestinal tract ... parents need to pay special attention to the care and provision of adequate nutrition for children. For children to be healthy and develop well, it is necessary to have a nutritious diet in terms of quantity and quality balance. If children are not provided with adequate and balanced nutrients, it will lead to diseases of excess or lack of nutrients, which adversely affect the comprehensive development of children in terms of physical, mental and motor skills.
Parents should supplement their children with supportive products containing lysine, essential micro-minerals and vitamins such as zinc, chromium, selenium, and B vitamins to help fully meet their child's nutritional needs. At the same time, these essential vitamins also support digestion, enhance nutrient absorption, help improve anorexia, and help children eat well.
Parents can learn more:
Signs of zinc deficiency in children
Micronutrient deficiency and failure to gain weight in children
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Reference source: mayoclinic.org