The 8 Tips in Building Resilient Child with Trauma or Neurodiversity
In this post, we examine how you can train your children to develop resilience in healing and developing a healthy and happy life.
Create a positive nurturing environment
An effective and supportive nurturing environment is the backbone to raising up resilient kids. You can achieve this by spending unconditional, quality time towards your child and show them that you care about them. Be sensitive to the feel and relationship your child has, his/her academics, and whereabouts so you can assist in identifying possible issues and offer support and advice.
Bring Clarity and Regularity
This will give consistency and structure to your child to offer a sense of clarity about what you expect of him/her. A regular routine may do a lot to add structure such that a regular school time wake scheduled even during the summer would help them feel secure in the consistency of the schedule. You should also be constant in the way you deal with the outbursts and problems. Allowances should be made during transitions or times of distress, but set schedules should help keep such occurrences intervals to a minimum.
Healthy, Happy Assuring Relationships
Not only should you make your child have a strong and positive relationship with you, but there are other relationships you should expect your child to form. Help your child develop good friendships with his/her peers as well as good social relationship with teachers and other adults in their life.
Teach Empathy
Build Problem Solving and Coping Skills
Exposure to problem solving and coping (self-regulation) may help your child endure difficult situations given the skills taught. Teach your child to solve problems through locating and finding a solution to problems or choices as well as proceeding in making decisions.
You could support the healthy risk-taking by letting them take up some new challenges in a safe and supportive manner like availing a new hobby. Engaging in STEM or STEAM activities is a wonderful option you can use with your child to raise self-confidence and resilience in him or her.
Lastly, independence as a problem-solving and coping skills, should be encouraged in a child. Let them make their own choice and to solve their own (age appropriate) problems. It will allow them to put into the practice the skills you’ve been nurturing in them and this is a major part of growing up!
Establish a Favorable Self-Concept
When you are feeling as though there is no hope, it might be hard to recognize the good in the world, or that you have something good to offer in the world. Remind your child of successes to overcome adversity that he or she has achieved in previous instances. This not only instills a positive self-image but gives your child the confidence to trust and be able to face certain challenges that may occur in the future. It is a fantastic approach to developing self-discovery and finding out their personal strengths. The power of confidence in self is that we are capable of great things when we believe in ourselves!
A Rejoicing Outlook Model
Strong emotions make it hard to say beyond the present situation when we are talking about painful situations. This may be particularly challenging when it comes to children who find it more difficult to see challenges with a longer-term perspective in a more general way. It consists of a positive outlook on the future. Although you do not want to be Pollyanna about anything, optimism can help your child see the positive in life, even in times of difficult circumstances. Gratitude is one of the best options to help the family maintain a positive outlook.
Model Resilient Behaviors
Key Takeaways