New Podcast with Jeff Nelligan- How You Can Raise Resilient Kids

11 Aug 2023 · 1 min

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In this podcast excerpt, Jeff Nelligan explains his two‑step approach to building resilience in children. First, he advocates removing electronic screens from kids’ lives, emphasizing that his own children grew up with very little technology. Second, he stresses the importance of immersing children in real‑world environments—such as hardware stores, grocery stores, churches, volunteer opportunities, athletic leagues, community events, and neighborhood interactions—so they regularly encounter a variety of people, from strangers to acquaintances, and observe how society functions. This exposure, he argues, cultivates adaptability, confidence, and social competence, which are core components of resilience.

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The building of resilience in kids, I found the best way to do that was in two simple fashions. Number one, you get kids out in the real world. First, you pry the screen out of their hands and you never give it back because my kids had little electronics, very little. But when I say the real world, I meant everything that's outside the front door, the hardware store, the grocery store, church, volunteer opportunities, athletic leagues, big events, neighborhood, community, anything to put them around a bunch of strangers or people that they knew, acquaintances or friends, but in the real world where they could just see the panorama of how people operate.