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What is resilience?
Resilience is the ability to adapt to adversity and cope with living in spite of stresses.
Building resilience is building the ability to bounce back and adapt to all kinds of adversity, including trauma, tragedy, threats, setbacks and stress. Children at some time in their lives will experience stress and trauma, but by building resilience, children are better able to manage stress and feelings of anxiety and uncertainty.
Resilience is important because it is the human capacity to face, overcome and be strengthened or even transformed by the adversities of life. And adversity affects us all at some time in our lives.
Resilient children: find ways to solve their problems exercise control over negative thoughts and take responsibility for choosing how to act and feel are more likely to have people to talk to and confide in when something worries them have inner strength, social and inter-personal skills, and skills in communicating effectively require parents and carers to model resilient behaviours and help promote resilience through words, actions and the environment, in which they are being raised like to try new things, enjoy a challenge need supervision, support and boundaries feel they can succeed persist with a task and persevere have a sense of optimism believe their contribution can make a difference to an outcome like helping people possess a sense of fun.
Ways we can raise a childs' confidence, resilience and well-being
Resilience draws on aspects of a child's characteristics including temperament and the environment in which they are raised and supported. It also includes people and opportunities that help build resilience, for example independence, autonomy and problem solving.
Strategies for building resilience can be learned over time. Learning to think positively and in