Your kids would most likely face certain difficulties at some point that would require resilience. One of the best things that you can do for them is to instill this attribute in them very early. Here are 11 tips that would help you do just that:

1. Teach Them Problem-solving 

Don’t just provide them with the solution to all the problems they encounter as kids. Allow them to figure out a way to solve some of them on their own. Give them a chance to be innovative, to learn what works and what doesn’t. 

2. Leave Some Questions Unanswered 

There are times when your kids would ask questions about things that they can figure out on their own. In cases like this, you should help them jug their memories. For instance, if your kid knows what a bird looks like and yet asks you what is perched on your roof, this is an example of a question that they can figure out an answer out for by themselves.

3. Don’t Give In To Their Every Wish 

This is one of the best ways to build your kids' resilience. When they do not get what they want at the drop of a hat, they keep on asking and this helps to build their determination. Recall that providing comfort and certainty all the time gets in the way of developing their resilience.

4. Leave Some Element Of Risk 

Now don’t get all scared. What this simply implies is that you need to allow your kids to learn certain new things on their own. For instance, being with your kid every single time he goes riding his bike isn’t great for him. When he’s left alone sometimes, he learns to ride better and try out new skills too. 

5. Help Your Kids Develop Useful Skills

Skills like relating with other kids or adults can be developed in kids right from a very young age. These are valuable skills that would serve them even when they are older. Apart from this, help them hone skills that you think might be useful for them irrespective of how young they are. 

6. Allow Them To Make Mistakes 

Mistakes are one great way to help your kids learn. Allow your kids to make mistakes and learn lessons from them. Also, you can easily point out lessons to be learned from their mistakes to them and this way, they would remember for longer.

7. Be A Model In Resilience 

If you are teaching your kids resilience, you need to be resilient yourself. Whether you want it or not, they would pick up on your habits gradually. To serve as a model in resilience and watch them learn faster. 

8. Teach Them Financial Literacy 

A major part of teaching your kids resilience is teaching your kids to be financially sound. Certain financial lessons would be better learned when a good foundation is laid. 

9. Emotional Intelligence 

Even as kids, you should teach them to control their emotions. If you notice that you’ve got a kid with tendencies to explode sometimes, the best time to change this is when he is still young. 

10. Avoid Speaking Negatives All The Time 

Lessons can be learned without a threat hanging or some potential catastrophe being the reason for its necessity. Kids learn best in a relaxed atmosphere and you should ensure that your kids are in a calm environment always. 

11. Ask More “How” Questions 

In most cases, “why” questions would elicit wrong answers on the part of the kids. Asking “how” questions instead would help develop their thinking.