Five Scripts to Build Resilience

Our kids have been through so much the last 18 months, and they are now stepping into another year of unknowns. I found this article helpful, with some practical statements to support our kids as they build resiliency and confidence.

“These are tough times. In some ways, there is no greater truth than this right now: we are a year into a pandemic, we are overwhelmed, overstretched, overtired. We want nothing more than a “return to normal”. It is incredibly hard to be an adult right now. It is incredibly hard to be a child right now. We are asking ourselves every day to show up, more depleted than ever, to take care of children who are understandably more frustrated, sad, angry, and anxious than ever.”