Building Resilience and Persistence in Children

"If we use those strengths and interests and we can develop a curriculum around it that helps build resilience and perseverance," he says. "I'll use the example of Patch here is a little boy that went from one side of America to the other when he got about halfway I bought him a little kind of tag along bike that went on the back." He pedaled most of the way the wrong way but was having a go at it, according to his father. 'Remember the trip wasn't about the bike what happened because we were using his love of movement,' Mr Smith adds.