Food for Thought

Whether it's going to school for the first time, making new friends or even going to school camp, children often experience difficulties that they need to overcome. Children's resilience is fostered when they overcome problems and manage unpleasant...

Everyone experiences stress in some or many forms throughout their life and loss, rejection, and failure are an inventible part of the human experience. Resilience helps kids to navigate setbacks and become confident in their ability to manage...

Snap Map has attracted a lot of media attention as the location-based aspect means that a user can choose to share their location with others. Because there are so many young people using the app this potential sharing is a cause for concern for...

Slowing down your thinking and avoiding jumping to conclusions is a great resilience skill that can be improved with practice. As a parent, you can model this type of thinking, reciting the possibilities out loud so your kids can see how it’s done...

In the past 20 or so years, parenting has become a significant focus on our society. We have discovered just how important it is that we get it ‘right’. The effects of or parenting are substantial, and long lasting. We affect our children, their...

This app is from Hugh van Cuylenburg who was quoted in last week’s article on ‘How to raise resilient children.’ The Resilience Project app is a daily well-being journal. Each day users will be prompted to identify their emotions, record moments of...

Parents, please watch Hugh van Cuylenburg, founder of The Resilience Project, who visited India and noted that children living in third world conditions were full of joy and made comparisons to Australian children's wellbeing. Hugh later studied a...

Pouting, sulking and whining are three of the most annoying ways that kids communicate their displeasure, anger or frustration with a situation. This behaviour is not just limited to young children, either—teens do it because they haven’t always...

We often forget that children aren’t born with a built-in sense of respect for others. While each child has a different personality, all children need to be taught to be respectful. From birth, children learn to manipulate their world to get their...

PARENTS PLEASE READ https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mental-wealth/201609/is-your-chi... Learning this information can literally change the course of your child’s life, it also will help you as a parent to make informed and mindful screen...