Psychological Resilience in Children

The most productive time period for children is the preschool period. They learn and experience many things during this period. Sometimes they accumulate positive experiences and sometimes negative experiences in their life piggy bank. In this process, children's ability to gain psychological resilience is as important as their development in other academic, cognitive and motor skills. Psychological resilience; It is the capacity to be prepared for negativities, to cope with stress and shocking situations, to adapt to difficult conditions, to cope with and develop by learning from destructive experiences. Nowadays, as parents, we think so much about everything for our children and by approaching everything cautiously, we prevent the child from facing negativities that children may fall short of psychological resilience.

It is important to establish warm relationships based on love and respect, to make the child feel safe, to create play environments with children that will develop both their physical and imagination skills, and to provide environments that support their social skills.

- Children grow up by taking the adults around them as role models. Parents can role model their children with positive ways of getting through difficult life situations and staying tough.

- Listening to children's feelings and thoughts makes them feel valuable.

- Reducing the time spent with screens and increasing quality time with the family is important in improving psychological resilience.

- It would be good to give them duties and responsibilities. It would be good to give them duties and responsibilities.

It should not be forgotten that;

As John Burroughs said, “We become stronger by what we overcome.” For this reason, psychological resilience in our children needs to be supported from the pre-school period.