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Articles

Two Articles

The two articles that I offer this term are counter intuitive. They both challenge us to look at the dangers of rescuing our children. Lately, I have come across many stories of parents attempting to rescue their children from all adversity, uncomfortable emotion and failure. The problem is, there is much to learn from adversity and difficulty and if our kids are rescued from it all, they are robbed of important life lessons. They don’t learn of their own ability to overcome adversity and are sheltered from consequences that may cause them to make choices that will bring them success. True enough, it is important to keep your child safe and relatively protected; however, when we continually step in and shield them too much from the world, they are ill-prepared for the world when they leave us. Counter intuitively, allowing your children to fail may spur them on to success and allowing them to feel disappointment and discomfort brings the gift of resilience.

Empowering versus Enabling

Resilience