Children experience challenges, obstacles, and barriers just like adults do. The difference is that little ones often don’t have years of experience learning how to cope with tough emotions, problem-solve, or heal from these adversities. Childcare is one key way that children can begin to learn how to build resiliency and face life’s challenges head-on!
Creating a Safe Space
One of the first steps to building resiliency is creating a safe space for children to be open and vulnerable about their emotions and what they might be feeling. Choosing a childcare center where children’s emotions are considered and even encouraged can go a long way in building the foundations of resiliency. When children are allowed to fully feel their feelings, they are better able to communicate them to adults and, with time, process them.
Teaching Conflict Resolution Skills
Conflict is an inevitable part of life at any age, and instilling problem-solving and conflict resolution skills early in life helps set children up to handle disagreements calmly and respectfully. Encouraging children to work through their problems with their peers, rather than avoiding conflict or solving problems for them, empowers them to make their own decisions and handle their relationships independently in an age-appropriate way.
Cultivating Coping Skills
Regulating emotions can be tough for children, and this process often takes time, but teaching coping skills early in life helps children to become stronger and more emotionally mature adults. In order to cope with stress, disappointment, and other complex emotions on a daily basis, children must develop skills to cope with these tough feelings, thus building emotional resilience.
Encouraging Healthy Relationships
Healthy, and unhealthy, relationships are possible at every age. One of the many benefits of daycare is that your child is encouraged to form bonds with their peers and learn how to work through the challenges and benefits of these social relationships. Building connections and identifying connections that don’t make a child feel safe or valued, is a critical component of resiliency, and often carries on later into life.
At Heaven’s Elect, your child’s wellbeing, physical and emotional, is our top priority. Here, your little ones can build crucial and long-lasting resiliency skills that lead to healthier relationships, more positive interactions among peers, higher self-esteem and confidence, and a greater ability to handle any challenges that may come their way.
Heaven’s Elect Christian Learning Center is a Non-denominational Christian childcare center fully licensed by the state of Michigan. Our Midland childcare center has been serving the community since 2000. Please contact us at heavenselect.com.