1925: Go Ahead, Make Mistakes: Fostering Resilience in Our Children by Adina Soclof of Parenting Simply on Helping Kids Embrace Failure
Oct 12, 2023
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Adina Soclof, a certified Speech Pathologist, discusses the importance of teaching children to embrace their mistakes and develop resilience. She provides three effective strategies to help children grow from their mistakes and become stronger. Learn simple ways to foster the right attitude about mistakes in children and create a peaceful home.
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Teaching children to manage mistakes and learn from them fosters resilience.
Mistakes should be used as teaching moments to help children understand their value and learn from them.
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Teach resilience by encouraging mistakes
One important life skill to foster resilience in children is to teach them to manage mistakes and learn from them. Parents often fear allowing their children to make mistakes, but this can hinder their ability to make decisions and solve problems. Instead, parents should promote resilience by encouraging children's efforts in finding solutions, even if they result in failures. Effort and attempts should be celebrated, and little failures viewed as opportunities for growth.
Use mistakes as valuable learning experiences
Parents can help children understand the value of mistakes by using them as teaching moments. For example, when a child breaks something, rather than scolding them for their irresponsibility, gently encourage them to think about what they learned from the mishap. It can also be helpful to share stories of successful people who turned their mistakes into achievements. Additionally, parents can role model honesty by discussing their own mistakes and the lessons they learned, showing children how to take responsibility and make amends.
Adina Soclof of Parenting Simply helps you foster resilience in your children
Episode 1925: Go Ahead, Make Mistakes: Fostering Resilience in Our Children by Adina Soclof of Parenting Simply on Helping Kids Embrace Failure
A certified Speech Pathologist, Adina received her Master’s degree from Hunter College in New York in Communication Sciences. Adina worked in preschools for the developmentally disabled in the New York area before staying home full time with her family.
In 2010, she launched Parenting Simply as a community to help parents connect with their children and learn simple, practical and easy to implement skills to create a peaceful home. Parenting Simply’s mission is to reduce the stress that parents and children feel by giving parents communication and organizational tips that can help parents maintain a loving and calm home.