Have you seen this last month how you or your youth could either use more resilience or how you developed more resilience?
Remember, we focused on modeling good coping skills? (see article) It's funny how our subconscious can work on a problem that we put in front of it because--looking back--I can see how much of my personal development centered around modeling good coping skills! Wow!
I found connections with what we were studying this month in our Vanguard group (patterns to keep and discard as part of our education) and really spent a lot of time evaluating how I respond to things. This actually led to a deeper, cleansing look at years' old default pathways that have been behind some of my negative coping "displays." It is ongoing, but has had a good beginning.
I would love to hear your own insights and experiences when thinking about and applying our challenge to model good coping skills for our youth!
Next challenge!
So here is the challenge for this month...
2. Praise effort, not just success. Children should understand that success is a product of hard work and sacrifice. But even when they try hard, sometimes they’ll fail. Commend your children for trying, then encourage them to figure out what’s going wrong and to try another approach or practice more. Celebrate small steps in the right direction.
To start off, please include in the comment section below or on the Facebook Vanguard page advice you may have for us going into this month: articles, personal experiences, books, talks, etc.
Let's synergize as we focus on this for the month!
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