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Help build your child’s resilience]

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There are a number of things that can help build your child’s resilience. Allow children to push their boundaries by taking healthy risks, like learning a new skill. Empower children to fix their problems and ask for support when they experience difficulty. Show them that you believe that they can cope.

Embrace them make mistakes and show them how your mistakes have helped you learn. Lead by example.

Support children in understanding and regulating their emotions while respecting where they are emotionally and not rushing them. We can teach them that emotions pass and are temporary. Identify and help label emotions, showing them how to manage it.

Show them how to reframe negative thoughts into positive ones. Encourage creativity through play, as this builds problem-solving skills, which in turn helps increase resilience.

Encourage exercise, as the neurochemicals released to help the brain to be more resilient to stress. Show our children unconditional love.

For more ideas to help your child with anxieties, follow the link in the description.

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HomeStart Central Bedfordshire. Thanks to: BBC Children in Need and Erin May, MSc MBACP Children’s Therapist]