Building emotional resilience in children

Next date: Wednesday, 18 September 2024 | 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM

Presented by Mark Le Messurier 2022 SA Senior Australian of the Year

Discussion 5: Building emotional resilience in children

The term resilience is used to describe a person's capacity to cope with change or challenge, and to constructively bounce back with optimism. It is a prized quality as it positions us to deal with the inevitable hiccups, shocks and disasters that await us in the future. Today, we understand that developing resilient qualities in our children is more than chance! It is a process that is very well understood. How are you doing?

Firstly, it requires a thoughtful commitment from parents because we are our children’s primary educators. We are the guardians of a precious space called home, where our children’s resilient capacities can be enabled or hindered. 

Secondly, the growth of our children’s emotional intelligence requires us to appreciate the interplay between their temperament, past life experiences, developmental factors, our modelling, and the home environment we’ve have created. It is through both subtle and explicit guidance, that children gradually learn to be resilience.

This workshop presents a collection of PRACTICAL resilience building ideas, I call them the 10-C's. They are can-do attitudes, confidence, connections, capacity to change, contributing to others, core value awareness, controlling what you can, communication, composed parenting and common sense.

The 10-C's provide an insightful guide for parents to become the best resilience coach for their children. Isn't it ironic that our children's resilience hinges on our knowledge and personal resilience, and how we model it, over the first 20 years of their lives? They are dependent on us knowing how to invest in them.

Wednesday 18 September, 10am - 12noon

Fullarton Park Community Centre, 411 Fullarton Road, Fullarton

Cost: Free, bookings essential.

For more information contact the Centre on 8372 5180 or email fpcc@unley.sa.gov.au

Parents can attend personalised sessions with child behaviour expert Mark Le Messurier throughout 2024, as he presents a different parenting topic each session. Numbers will be limited. Participants have the opportunity for discussion and to raise their own issues. Book one, a few or all sessions. We ask if you reserve a place in these free sessions that you do your best to attend. We are unable to cater for children in these sessions.

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Fullarton Park Community Centre, 411 Fullarton Road, Fullarton, 5063, View Map