Resilience is a survival skill parents can teach kids by encouraging them to recover from setbacks. Children who learn to dust themselves off develop better mental and physical health, and grow into more effective problem-solvers at work.
Can you develop that type of resiliency? Like, can you develop a higher tolerance for psychosocial stressors? Is that something that you can actively work on? 100%. Certainly parents should be encouraging this in their kids, helping to nurture resilience and adaptability in children. Probably one of the greatest gifts a parent can give their children because that's survival. Saying that no matter what happens in life, my children are going to survive because they, if they fall down, if somebody pushes them down, they'll pick themselves up, they'll dust themselves off, and they will go on and they'll figure out how to deal with it. Making sure that your children survive, it's about helping them improve their mental health, their physical health. That type of a person is going to be a more effective employee. That person who's resilient, adaptable, flexible, Can roll with the punches, can solve problems. It's an amazing gift.
How to Raise Strong, Unshakable Boys in Today's Culture, with Dr. Shefali Tsabary
