Recommendations for Resilience

 “Here are some recommendations for how we might apply [helping children develop resilience] in our homes:

·         Pray to understand your children’s strengths and how to help them with their weaknesses.

·         Be patient and realize that children need time to develop resilience.

·         Strive to understand that mistakes and failures are opportunities to learn.

·         Allow natural, logical consequences to serve as the disciplinarian.

·         Respect children’s decisions, even if their poor choices lead to lost privileges.

·         Refrain from berating children for breaking the rules.

·         Do not discourage effort by criticizing harshly.

·         Rather than praising accomplishment, encourage and praise effort.

·         “Praise your children more than correct them. Praise them for even their smallest achievement.” (President Ezra Taft Benson, “The Honored Place of Women,” Ensign, Nov. 1981, 107).

Lyle J. Burrup, “Raising Resilient Children,” Ensign, Mar 2013, 15.