Families Tackling Tough Times Together is a program for families to build resiliency in their children. Resiliency is the #1 quality that will determine success! For nine weeks, we will post different strategies and programs for building this important characteristic in our kids!
Week 1
Having a POSITIVE OUTLOOK makes a huge difference in resiliency! Click HEREfor more info and some fun activities with your kids. Want more family activities? Click HERE.
Week 2
Doing CREATIVE PROBLEM-SOLVING can make a difference in how conflict and disappointment are handled, thus build resiliency! ClickHERE for more info and some fun activities with your kids.
Feeling CONNECTED to others is a powerful feeling and can create resiliency through knowing that you aren't alone! Click HERE for more info and some fun activities for building this with your kids.
Being able to ACCEPT ADVERSITY and to grow from it, allows people to learn to bounce-back from life and be able to more forward more happily! Click HERE for more info and some fun activities for building this with your kids.
Being willing to SHARE FEELINGS CONSTRUCTIVELY allows people to express their feelings appropriately and to be able to listen to the feelings of others. Once you learn how to have good, constructive conversations and be in touch with your feelings, you are able to have better relationships, and those help you bounce back when things aren't going so well! ClickHERE for more info and some fun activities for building this with your kids.
When you are able to be FLEXIBLE AND CHANGE with circumstances, it allows you to bounce back from adversity much easier. Growth mindset (viewing mistakes as good and just events to help you learn and grow to get closer to where you want to be vs. viewing mistakes as bad and keeping you from getting where you want to go) is a key to developing this skill. Click HERE for more information and some fun activities for building this with your kids.
When you can focus on your beliefs/values and how hardships can make you a better person you can GET STRONGER from those events. Being able to build emotional strength will help your family overcome bad things when they do happen. Click HERE for more information and some fun activities for building emotional strength with your kids.
TELLING THE TRUTH can help us accept what is happening and allow us to be able to deal with it, helping to make us more resilient. Sometimes hearing the truth (death, divorce, hurt, anger) can be difficult, but being able to hear it, accept it, and face it builds our strength and allows us to face unpleasant things. Click HERE for more information and some fun activities for building emotional strength in your kids.
TAKING ACTION can help us feel more in control and being able to "take care" of things that we have control over can help us feel safe and resilient. Sometimes we can't DO something to fix what life throws at us but being able to do what we can when we can AND building a network of support for when we can't helps us cope with all kinds of things! Click HERE for more information and some fun activities for building the ability to take action in your kids.