3 things to teach children to face difficulties
Learning how to cope with anxiety and stress will help your child become more resilient.
Just like adults, children have their own worries. Children who are trained in coping skills are more likely to become resilient, mentally healthy adults. Who is the best person to teach children coping skills? Their parents.
Difficult situations, which we wish were an inevitable part of life. Difficulties for 4-6 year olds often include saying goodbye to their parents at school, having to try something new, or wanting to join a group of friends.
Children need to learn to manage these worries so that they do not develop into uncontrollable fears and subsequent poor mental health when they do not feel they can manage and control difficult situations. This becomes even worse when children go through life with difficult issues that go on for too long without being managed or dealt with.
To help children develop effective problem-solving skills, parents should guide them in the following:
1. Prevent useless actions
Crying too much, getting angry, blaming yourself and getting angry are not good ways to deal with difficulties. Children should be encouraged to use more helpful ways of dealing with problems such as asking for help, saying sorry and staying calm.
2. Talk to adults
Encourage your child to talk to you about their worries, especially about how to deal with their own difficulties. This not only helps parents identify their child's difficulties, but also "shows the deer the right path" so that the child does not make regrettable mistakes.
Regular parent-child confiding shows that the child will develop a positive response and generate some ideas about what they can do to help themselves better.
3. Building soft skills
Teaching your child basic skills like wound care and how to manage personal belongings is extremely important. Don’t assume that your child is too young to ignore this, it can help them a lot in future situations.
