Mindset & Emotional Skills

Resilience Checklist: 12 Challenges for Kids

• Give them a task slightly above their skill level and resist helping
• Let them try something they might fail at (a recipe a build a new skill)
• After a failure ask "what would you do differently" not "what went wrong"
• Tell stories about your own failures and what you learned
• Set a challenge they cannot complete in one try (juggling solving a puzzle learning a knot)
• When they say "I can't" add "yet" and mean it

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