Resilience

What can you do to promote resilience in your child’s life?

We, as parents, carers and community, are our children’s best role models.

Take time to:

• encourage your child to try new things
• allow children to work through challenges rather than immediately solving problems for them
• acknowledge that sometimes things are difficult or don’t go the way we hoped
• encourage children to try again when something doesn’t work the first time
• recognise effort and persistence, not just success

What are we doing at GAP to promote resilience?

We encourage children to try things for themselves and support them when something is difficult.

We give children opportunities to solve problems, make choices and work through challenges.

We acknowledge children’s feelings when something doesn’t go as planned and help them think about what they might do next.

We encourage children to keep trying and celebrate their effort and persistence.

We provide a safe and supportive environment where children can try new things, make mistakes and learn from them.

Our commonly used resilience phrases at GAP

„Versuch es noch einmal.“
Try again.

„Du kannst das.“
You can do it.

„Ich helfe dir.“
I’ll help you.