Don't Shelter Your Children: Coping With Stress As A Child Develops Resilience And Emot... - 5 views
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We already know that "suffering builds character", but a new study suggests that it may do a lot more than that.
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Successfully coping with stress at an early age may significantly increase your chances of being a more resilient adult, as well as strengthen your ability to regulate emotions.
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Parents may feel that by preventing their child from encountering any and all potential hardship they are helping to preserve their emotional well-being, but going through a little stress and encouraging them to cope with it effectively will benefit them far more when it comes to being a more resilient, independent, and emotionally stable adult.
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Stressful experiences that are challenging but not overwhelming appear to promote the development of subsequent resilience in children.
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Youths that were exposed to stress actually had less anxiety, lower levels of stress, and had more confidence in exploring novel situations
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after coping with stress successfully, your brain says, "Hey, that wasn't too bad. I can handle this."
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The key point in the article is that mild stress exposure resulted in positive changes in the brain, not torture or a series of near-death experiences.
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You can't buffer your child from every non-happy moment in his life, so at least take comfort in the fact that while he is suffering in the short term, he is enhancing his well-being in the long term.