We all want our children to be joyful. We love to see our children to grow healthy and happy. As parents it’s our natural desire to expect good for our children.

However, life is not always a bed of roses and ups and downs are inevitable. Moreover, most of the time our focus is on child’s physical health and academic performance. We hardly invest our time to address emotional needs of children. 

But physical development and academic grades isn’t everything.

Yes, like adult, children too have many bothering issues on their mind. They too experience negative emotions like fear, anxiety, low mood and even angry outbursts. 

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Unaddressed emotional needs in children

As a part of growth and development, children possess an innate resilience when they stumble and fall. Their cries change into laughter and sadness into happiness in no time. But as the life goes on, children too start to lose their confidence. Sometimes, it becomes difficult for them to withstand challenging situations and controls their emotions.

The degree of emotional resilience is different for each child. No doubt most of the children can adapt to changes and move forward effortlessly. But some still find it challenging.

It’s not always the situation that is tough, but the inability to respond it seems challenging.

The situation is concerning when children don’t receive explanation about their feelings. Even when they are stressed, they are told that it’s a natural part of life. Without proper information, children get confused and develop frightening misconception about life. 

The worst part is that children don’t know how to express their feelings in healthy ways. Sometimes they are reluctant to share their feelings with their parents.

Ultimately, children get less adopted with emotions and more to rumination, catastrophizing or suppressed feelings. Poor resilience can seriously disrupt a child’s emotional and cognitive development. 

The associated negative consequences raise the risk of behavioral problems in adulthood.

Maladaptive emotional and behavioral traits have a substantial influence in multiple domains, including health, academic performance, social networking and financial success. 

But the good news is that we can promote emotional resilience in our children.

Emotional resilience is a way to learn how to deal with our feelings during stressful situations. Emotional resilience is beneficial to thrive after overcoming adversity and emerged as victorious. If we want our children to experience the world, nurturing emotional resilience is the key. Emotional resilience allows a child to accept life with all of its pain and joy.

When children are emotionally resilient, they view difficult situation as a mean to learn and grow. They are willing to try new experiences and hardly fall back on challenges thrown at them. Such children are good at adapting to situation, problem-solving and learning new skills.

Making Good Emotional Connection

Parents play a crucial role in raising emotionally resilient children. Since we are a first caregiver of a child, it is important to encourage our children to recover from setbacks in a healthy way. 

What is the good parenting style that definitely works to raise resilient children?

Well, as such there is no definite answer to this question.

But establishing a caring relationship with our children makes them feel safe when life gets hard.

What’s more interesting is a clear explanation about tough situation allows children to think rationally about the event rather than simply reacting to it. An understandable information about a stressful event helps children to feel more in control. 

And, interestingly, a good conversation can protect children from getting engage in many types of fears.

When we let our children to express their feelings, it reduces the intensity of fearful thoughts. A non-judgmental acceptance of emotions help to build a strong emotional connection with our children. This will make it less scary for children to think and talk about their feelings. 

By assuring our children that they are not alone in their suffering make them feel more protected. 

Despite being in situation, helping children to get adjusted to life develops a sense of hope.

As parents, we must allow our children to recognize and acknowledge all goods we have. Yes, looking on the bright side goes a long way to perceive things gracefully. 

Inculcating a positive growth mindset promises better mental health outcomes in children. It not only helps our children to grow in personal life but also encourage to grab opportunities in academic and professional areas.

In essence, let’s give your best to facilitate emotional resilience in your children. After all, they are going to be next responsible people of the world.

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