Resilience is defined as the ability to spring back, rebound, or readily recover from adversity. It’s a quality that allows people to be competent and accomplished despite tough circumstances. Some children from difficult backgrounds do well from a young age. Others bloom later, finding their paths once they reach adulthood.

1. Your child can be helped by promoting involvement in activities, minimizing their exposure to stressful events, and most importantly, the presence of adults who have a positive and calm attitude.

2. Whenever possible, reappraisal is more effective than the suppression of feelings. In other words, figuring out how to make the best of a difficult situation, rather than not allowing any expression of emotion.

Two general approaches: Monitoring the child’s reactions, support when the child is obviously upset. Learn what events trigger disruption.

Try to spend time with your child through engagement and activities. When there is a secure relational-engagement, your child would be more willing to share about their insecurities with you.

Try to acknowledge your child's feelings beneath their behaviour: Respond to your child's feelings of the situation instead of reacting to it. This helps to promote mastery over their feelings, and this mastery leads to a feeling of greater security.

If you have any concerns about your child's socio-emotional wellbeing in school, please feel free to get in touch with the school counsellors.