Category: emotional resilience

Florida First Lady Backs Teaching Children ‘Resilience’

Florida First Lady Casey DeSantis says that the state’s schoolchildren must learn essential life skills to become successful adults: grit and perseverance to help them face adversity, problem-solving, and self-management. It boils down to resilience, she said in a roundtable discussion at Florida State University on March 22. Following the roundtable, the state’s Board of…


What’s Happened to Emotional Resilience?  

My friend Jane was lamenting the fact that her 10-year-old daughter would be coming home from camp early. Jane had finally given in; she couldn’t take any more sobbing phone calls from her daughter about how awful camp was and how the girls in the cabin were bothering and mistreating her. My friend was confused…