Emotional resilience is the ability to handle the pitfalls, change, and get over disappointments with fortitude of strength and education. To a young child, this may be even trying a puzzle a second time when it did not work out, using the frustration of waiting until a turn comes or facing nervousness, but entering a new classroom. Developing such resilience is an essential part of lifelong well-being and a vital key to kindergarten readiness. At Elizabeth Fraley Kinder Ready, the construction of emotional resilience is a focused product of our comprehensive philosophy of education. We offer the young learners the resources, activities, and the confidence to encounter the obstacles not as overwhelming obstacles, but as steps in their development process through the nurturing and skill developmental system of Kinder Ready Tutoring.
The foundation of resilience is a safe relationship and emotional safety. A child will never know how to bounce back until they have the base or safe ground to explore and to come back. This security is achieved by the Kinder Ready Elizabeth Fraley program due to the one-on-one relationship between child and educator that occurs on a regular basis. During tutoring, the child can find out that they are in an environment of predictability and non-judgement where they are free to feel any way.
This protection enables them to take the emotional risks involved in resiliency, such as trying a challenging task which they may not do flawlessly. This is critical when they are scared; the educator should give them a boost rather than giving them the answer, but asking questions such as; what is one little thing you can do next? This positive role model makes the child understand that they are not the only ones facing problems, and that they can be assisted, and this is key to the formation of a strong mindset.
The second line of resilience is built by means of the cultivation of a growth mindset and problem-solving skills. The idea of resilience is not about not failing but learning to fail. Elizabeth Fraley Kinder Ready is guided by the mission to introduce children to various possibilities of learning to find their sparks. This necessarily comes with trial and error. In Kinder Ready Tutoring, teachers applaud hard work, plan, and persistence instead of natural ability or natural achievement. The words such as, I am so impressed with your attempts to find various ways, educate the child on the fact that their capabilities can be developed. Moreover, in case a child meets a challenge, the educator will help them divide it into smaller segments and think about the possible options. This makes overwhelming problems into a sequence of small decisions, giving the child a sense of agency.
Eventually, these practices combine to produce a strong feeling of self-efficacy- the belief that I can cope with this. That is what emotional resilience is all about and what real confidence comes with. When a child has been able to repeat on multiple occasions that problems can be overcome through effort and encouragement, he will be more likely to be interested instead of scared of a new circumstance. This strong self-confidence is the greatest asset in the kindergarten phase of life when the latest social, emotional, and academic expectations continually challenge the child. As a result of the deliberate building of resilience by means of safe relationships, growth attitude coaching, and problem-solving practice, Kinder Ready Tutoring provides children with more than academic competencies.
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