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Building Resilience in Children and Teens - Confidence
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Welcome to the Building Resilience in Children Blog Series. The goal of this series is to take a look at the American Academy of Pediatrics book, Building Resilience in Children and Teens, Giving Kids Roots and Wings by Kenneth R. Ginsburg, with Martha M. Jablow. This book is a valuable resource for parents supporting children in developing skills that will make them stronger, happier and more resilient.
Building Resilience in Children and Teens - Confidence
Confidence is the belief in one's own abilities and is rooted in competence. Dr Ginsburg states that children gain confidence by demonstrating their competence in real life situations. When parents support children in finding their own islands of competence and building on them, they prepare kids to gain enough confidence to try new ventures and trust their abilities to make sound choices.
Risk-taking is a natural part of growing up. Children will face many choices that contain elements of risk, as they navigate through childhood and adolescence. These opportunities can lead to success in adult life. Children need confidence in order to take those necessary risks that allow them to grow and be responsible risk-takers.
Children with confidence are more likely to persevere and have positive outlooks, later in life. Failure is a way that we can help our kids develop confidence. Allowing our children to experience failure is a lesson for success. We will all have failures. However, resilient people learn from their failures and learn how to do better next time.
Board games offer the opportunity for children to exhibit their competence through a win, but more importantly, how to develop competence through a loss. We can teach our children to lose with grace and to try again. Play, that promotes the ability to strengthen problem-solving skills, can help show children how to master a task. When children master a task, they believe in their ability. When they believe in their ability, they develop confidence. And, when they develop confidence, they are building resilience.
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There are seven crucial C’s of resilience, competence, confidence, connection, character, contribution, coping and control. These are all interwoven and essential. In the next blog post, we will explore the third of the 7 C’s, connection.
16 Comments for Building Resilience in Children and Teens - Confidence
Rachel Rice | March 21, 2012 at 8:46 am
Lisa Anderson | March 21, 2012 at 8:50 am
Great article and I have seen how failure and try again scenario has helped our daughter, 4, build confidence to try new things. Also, it is a great confidence builder to see her parents not always being the best and learning from failure too.
Breanna fisher | March 21, 2012 at 8:55 am
I love all of simply funs games and this blog is great!
Kerri S | March 21, 2012 at 9:14 am
It's so so important for both sexes, but impo, more so for girls! Love on them and cheer them on and guide them when it's not right! Love your products.
Tina Traughber | March 21, 2012 at 9:35 am
I am totally loving this blog. It shares great information how children develop resilicency and its importance in life! I have always loved play and how it can help children become stronger in so many ways...academically,emotionally,and socially. I LOVE SimplyFun for getting that and creating superior games that help children and families!
Alicia Walker | March 21, 2012 at 9:48 am
I do not have any simply fun games at this moment but I am considering having a party soon. Excited to start enjoying these fun games i have heard so much about.
Amanda Young | March 21, 2012 at 10:26 am
Love the blogs and of course Love SimplyFun. Confidence is a big issue in my life as well as my daughters. With these games were both learning its ok to speak up and have fun. If we don't we are going to miss so much in life and not grow like we should. Thank you SimplyFun with everything you do for not just me but for my family.
Chavelita Giunta | March 21, 2012 at 10:32 am
The Building Resilience series is very informative! Thank you for posting it.
Lisa Pelton | March 21, 2012 at 11:14 am
Enjoying the Building Resilience blogs. Thanks!
Julie Foreee | March 21, 2012 at 11:45 am
I love this series you guys are covering. So true that learning to lose well is a harder and more important skill to have. I love that SimplyFun games give us a chance to work on that in a fun way!
Malinda | March 21, 2012 at 2:09 pm
Resilience is so important to thriving - thank you for making this a focus!
Jennifer | March 21, 2012 at 2:27 pm
Another great excerpt from a great book and a fantastic way to spread some important information to parents. Loving Simply Fun more and more!!!
Anna | March 21, 2012 at 2:28 pm
Great blog! It's so awesome to have a company like SimplyFun that cares about issues such as this! Great company with great values!
Teresa V. Rosado | March 22, 2012 at 4:00 am
Most definitely winning and losing in games is a great way to build resilience. As parents sometimes we want to let our children win all the time but losing is just as important. Love Simply Fun games because they make losing even fun.
Cathy Hesler | March 24, 2012 at 8:03 am
Developing resilience is one of the most challenging aspects of my job as a teacher of gifted students. When the going gets tough, the smart often give up! I use games of all types to develop the interpersonal and academic skills necessary for children to meet a challenge head on and "try, try again."
Joan A. Martin | April 5, 2012 at 7:35 pm
You guys did a great job spending your time to create this article! If I had to explain my emotions about your website in only one word ? it would be WOW! Thank you! P.S. Subscribed for updates!
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My family loves Simplyfun board games. When we spend family time together i can see our kiddos confidence growing! We are still working on the good attitude when they lose but we are trying!