Wellbeing
Shelby Turner and Josy Reeder
Building resilience
When things go wrong, resilience is what helps you to cope and get through hard times. Sometimes it makes you even stronger than you were before.
What is resilience?
Resilience is the ability to cope when things go wrong.
Resilience can also be described as:
- Bouncing back after difficult times
- Dealing with challenges and still holding your head up
- Giving things a go or trying your best
- Being strong on the inside
- Being able to cope with what life throws at you and shrug it off
- Standing up for yourself
- Getting back into shape after you have been bent or stretched
What can I do when I’m facing a challenge? You can start to build resilience by asking yourself:
- What can I do to get back on track?
- I can’t control everything, so what is in my control?
- Can I change something I’m doing to make things better?
- What can I learn from this?
- Who can help?
- How can I move forward?
For more ideas and information on how to build resilience in our children go to: https://kidshelpline.com.au/teens/issues/building-resilience
Inform and Empower Webinar
Carly McGauran from Inform and Empower is presenting a webinar on 'Tackling Tricky Conversations'. This session will provide strategies to feel more relaxed and empower you to have those tricky conversations that are critical to your child's development. She will provide ideas to help you have conversations with kids who just won't talk, she will discuss how to encourage your child to come to you when they have a problem, as well as touching on tough topics including sexuality, pornography, separation, death, self harm and suicide.
Please read the attached flyer with more information and registration details.
At OLA, we have always found these webinars easy to listen to and very informative! Join us online on Thursday 14 November at 7:30PM.
Free webinars for parents and carers
eSafety’s live webinars give parents and carers the knowledge, skills and tools to support their children to have safe online experiences.
Our Term 4 webinar dates are now online.
Supporting healthy tech use as your child transitions into high school
- Thursday, 28 November, 12.30 pm AEDT
eSafety 101: How eSafety can help
- Wednesday, 4 December, 12.30pm AEDT