ORE Counselor Newsletter
May 4-8, 2020
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Character Trait of the Week - Developing Resilience
Resilience is the ability to bounce back from stress, adversity, failure, challenges, or even trauma. As a parent, you can help to develop essential skills, habits and attitudes for building resilience at home by helping your child to:
These short videos are examples of how children can develop resilience.
PK-1st grade https://www.sesamestreet.org/toolkits/challenges
2nd-4th grades https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FDyiUEn8Vw
*Build supportive relationships - Quality relationships are important for resilience. You can help develop your child’s resilience by helping them build and strengthen their relationships with other children, and with significant adults in their lives – including your parent-child relationship
*Focus on autonomy and responsibility - Autonomy and responsibility play an important role in building children’s resilience. You can encourage your children to take on responsibilities and develop a sense of autonomy.
*Focus on managing emotions - Being resilient is not always about feeling better or having fewer emotional reactions. It’s about managing and responding to emotions in a healthy and positive way. You and other adults in your child’s life play a role in helping children articulate, respond to and manage emotions.
*Create opportunities for personal challenge - Provide your child with opportunities to build their confidence and learn how to deal with obstacles, success and failure when they undertake personal challenges.
https://healthyfamilies.beyondblue.org.au/healthy-homes/building-resilience
Character Book of the Week
CLICK THIS LINK TO HEAR THE BOOK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLdAXyZ7_iQ
The Thing Lou Couldn't Do
by Ashley Spires
After the video, discuss the following questions.
1. Talk with your child about how Lou decided to deal with the challenge of climbing a tree.
(Note to Educator Parent: It is important to highlight the fact that Lou decided to stay positive and return to this task at a later time.)
2. Brainstorm various characteristics and traits that might form the disposition which Lou holds (e.g., high self-esteem, positive outlook, high level of resilience, etc.).
3. Introduce the term resilience and co-create a working definition. (
Note to Educator Parent: Definitions should include content such as the ability to bounce back and/or the ability to recover from adversity.)
4. Discuss or have your child find examples of, how Lou demonstrated self-care and resiliency throughout the story.
5. Look below and discuss the Personal Resiliency sheet from School Mental Health Assist.
6. Ask your child what s/he can do to make this document more relevant to her/him.
7. Ask your child to create his/her own one-pager on “Personal Resiliency: The Basics of Self-Care.”