How to Guide Your Child to be Mentally Strong

Mar 27, 2020 | Children's Mental Health, Positive Parenting, Uncategorized

If your child is mentally strong they are better prepared for the demands of everyday life. They are able to overcome the problems that they may face.

This does not mean that they should hide their emotions or act fine when they are not. It means that they need to learn to be resilient and to understand and manage their emotions in a positive way. You can help your kids learn how to be mentally strong by taking several actions.

Discuss and validate their feelings

Your kids have feelings just like you do. So, it’s important that you recognise this fact and validate their feelings. This starts by talking to your child about feelings and emotions. You can explain how you are feeling and listen when they say how they are feeling.

It’s important to recognise that their feelings are real. You should tell your child that it’s okay to have an emotion like anger or fear and then talk to them about how they might want to react when they have those feelings. This helps them to understand that actions like hitting and biting are not appropriate ways of dealing with feelings.

Teach them how to manage emotions

Recognising and validating that your child has feelings is just the start. You also need to help them to understand how to manage their emotions. Rather than always taking responsibility for trying to calm your child down, you can try helping them to regulate their own emotions.

For instance, your child may like to play a particular game when they feel stressed, or they may find that picking up a pencil and drawing helps. Supporting your child while they discover what works for them is a good idea.

Watch brain training videos

Strengthening the way their brain works can help your child to overcome problems that they may come across in their life. You may want to join your child and watch a short video for kids that helps to train your child’s brain. You may also want to think about playing brain training games with your child so that they have fun while improving their problem-solving skills.

Let them make mistakes and learn from them

As a parent, it can be difficult to watch your child make mistakes and get frustrated by them. However, mistakes can be an excellent learning opportunity, as you will know from when you have made mistakes yourself.

This is why it’s a good idea to let your child take responsibility for things like remembering items that they need to take to school with them. If they forget, there will usually be a consequence. Learning from this will help them to realise how important it is to remember in future.

Engage in problem-solving with them

Everyone needs to learn how to solve problems. It’s a basic skill needed for surviving in life. Helping your child with this is important. If your child has a problem, like struggling with a subject at school, you can start by talking to them about it.

It’s important to not be negative. The aim is to help your child to see that they can make a positive change to solve a problem. Talk to them about how they can plan to resolve the problem and help them with the planning process while allowing them to take the lead.

Make mental care a family priority

Children learn from what happens at home. For instance, parents show their children how important it is to clean their teeth or wash their hands. However, often the health of the mind is not discussed.

Having discussions about the importance of building mental strength is important for all members of the family. This is why it’s a good idea to take part in mental strength exercises as a family and to talk openly about feelings and emotions in a positive manner.

Mental strength is one of the most important attributes that your child can have. It helps them to navigate their way through life and deal with problems that they encounter. The actions mentioned in this article can help you to guide your child to be mentally strong.

 

About the Author

Harry Meliville has over 5 years of experience as a Content Writer and Marketing Assistant. He currently specializes in Content management. He’s been working on websites like MalcolmsGarden as a marketing development assistant. Harry is a proud father to three beautiful children, two girls, and a boy.  Having several happy years of experience as a single dad, he perfectly shares his knowledge connected with parenting and active children to others through his writing.

 

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