Building Confidence and Resilience
Building Confidence and Resilience
Research shows a child’s attitude and behavior regarding their abilities to achieve or fail are already in place by preschool (Carol Dweck). Preschool seems too early to have determined your fate regarding whether or not you can handle life and learning, right? Neurological wiring of self-confidence and resilience is well underway before we even begin to think about a lack of confidence and mindset blocks in our children.
Our parental awareness skills for how to boost confidence and resilience are paramount at any age but the earlier we start the better. One of the reasons this can be challenging to parent is because building self-confidence while still supporting and nurturing can feel like a tight rope walk. Breaking self-confidence and resilience skill-building into two categories of growth can help make this a more easily applied skill, and we’ll work on both in this digital social-emotional learning activity kit.
SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL LEARNING ACTIVITY KIT: Building Confidence and Resilience
Here’s what you’ll get:
Brain-splain: The bite-size overview of how confidence and resilience go hand-in-hand, and why they are so important for success. When you’re done reading this page, you’ll know what skills you’ll be working on to help your child build confidence and resiliency.
Inhale+Exhale: This breathing exercise is intended to help each family member recognize things they are proud of and ways they help others. Our brains are wired to look for negative, so training our brains to strengthen our positive awareness of self can be helpful for boosting self-confidence.
Brain Boost: The keys to becoming more resilient are building your optimism and reframing skills. In this activity we’re working on quieting the negativity chatter as a family! When kids get good at this, watch out grownups! They’ll keep you on your toes (in a very good way).
Journals: Many households have multiple kids, and adult support is just as crucial as kid support, so we provide three sets of four weekly journals (little kid, big kid, adult/teen) to help your family grow and bond. In this pack, we’re working on ways to take the mic from the negative and hand it over to the positive.
Let’s Talk About It: Tired of asking what your kids feel and think and getting the cold, shrugged shoulder? A set of 12 conversation starters based around confidence and resilience to help you get deeper than how was your day and help open the family communication.
Remembering Rainbows: It’s normal to have fear or worries, especially when trying something new. We just have to remember that dark clouds aren’t the only thing in the sky! There are rainbows up there, too! This is an incredible worksheet for kids and adults alike.
Videos: Two short, fun videos - one for you and one for the kids to help explain what’s happening in the brain and how they have the power to make choices that benefit their mental and physical well-being.
FAQ’s
+ What age-group is this for?
Most of our printables are designed for preschool through elementary age kiddos, but you're not limited to that age-range, by any means. If you have children in multiple age groups, you're going to take what you learn and infuse it in your older kid's lives, too. Plus, if you have older children, the weekly journals will make a big impact on weaving social-emotional, mindful learning into your whole family.
+ My child has a diagnosis. Will this work for me?
100% yes. What we’re going to teach you is how to boost their brain in courage, kindness, respect, responsibility, gratitude, creativity, growth mindset and healthy lifestyle. No matter your child’s diagnosis or where their current mindset is, the life skills you’re going to teach them will impact their overall well-being, contentment and future success. Not only that, it will do the same for you, which will be pretty life-altering.
+ How much time will I need to devote each month?
The content and activities will not add more to your plate, it’s just going to make the moments you have more intentional. You’ll get a little nugget each month to focus on and tools and activities to deepen your knowledge on the topic. Over time, as you rewire your brain, you’ll see the changes you’ve made take root and flourish. We’re helping you change your mindset and giving you tools to help your kids change theirs.
+ How is the content delivered?
They will be instantly downloadable after you submit your order. You’ll also get an email with download options. You’ll find all the pdfs and a link to two fun (short!) learning videos - one for your kids and one for you. View and print any of the printable PDF’s that you’d like! Stick them in a binder and use them all year long.
+ Can I share the content I get with my friends?
We would love for you to share how much you love this program with your friends and family, but each purchase is licensed for one family and can only be used with the immediate family or caregiver. If your family is in a dual house situation, you can of course share it with both houses.