Here are some ideas from pbskids' website as well as some research about what helps children become resilient. We can apply these into our own lives as well!

From psycholgoist Dr. Becky's Good Inside book we learn what fosters resilience in children and what we can do to help!

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Dr. Becky Kennedy, author of Good Inside and clinical psychologist, explains perhaps the two biggest goals of parenting. They are so encouraging and doable. We've got this!

Philippa Perry in her book "The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read (and Your Children Will be Glad That You Did) talks about this concept of feeling with are children rather than merely dealing with them. Our kids are good inside and are having a hard time rather than trying to give us a hard time.

Come learn some powerful tools for how to help our children process through really big emotions. These ideas come from Dr. Becky's book Good Inside as well as Philippa Perry's book The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read (and Your Children Will Be Glad That You Did).

We all have hard days! Hard can mean challenging moments or times of suffering. Hard can also describe being solid and not easily broken and having strength. Today we discuss two things that can help us get through our toughest days!

We can all take a break to find calm and patience again and take care of our emotional wellbeing so we can better address any storm we are in. Research shows that supportive physical touch can also we a way to reach calm and tame our nervous system.

Our children and ourselves sometimes wonder "Am I loveable? Am I likeable?" We can be that person in our child's life that they can turn to to reassure them of how we love them and we like them. We see their infinite worth and goodness even when others or they can't see it in themselves. Sometimes we all get frustrated with certain behaviors and we can learn to separate the behaviors with how we feel about our child.

Come learn about authors Philipa Perry and Dr. Shefali on a new shift in our parenting! These powerful ideas have revolutionzied my whole paradigm and how I interact with my kids.

Slipping into our partner's shoes or squeezing into our children's shoes can give us perspective that makes all the difference!