Paul Tough's book, "How Children Succeed," has me pondering how we encourage resilience in children. I'm sure I will have many more posts on this subject, but I thought I would share an article from The Washington Post by Carolyn Butler that I had filed away this past summer on sleepovers, summer camp, and resilience.
"One of the things that troubles me about this generation is that we want our children endlessly challenged academically, but we don’t seem to want their resilience challenged in other ways. You can’t know you’re resilient until your resilience is challenged. And resilience or grit is key because it’s what gets you through the hard times in life."
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