"In any given week, the 12% to 15% of school-age children who have urgent needs for social and emotional support are not getting help" (Woolfolk, 2013, p. 233).
As you have been studying, children are unique and complicated individuals—many factors affect their ability to develop, learn, and thrive. Your course textbook defines resilience as "the ability to adapt successfully in spite of difficult circumstances and threats to development" (Woolfolk, 2013, p. 233). Such "threats" might include being raised in alcoholic or abusive homes, being victims of tragic or traumatic events such as Columbine or Hurricane Katrina, and/or living in poverty. Why does it seem that some children never recover from these traumatic onslaughts while others, despite the odds, survive and even thrive?
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Review "Fostering Resilience" on pages 233–234 in your course text, and consider what you have learned from these pages as well as from the Web bulletin, "Fostering Resilience in Children" (http://ohioline.osu.edu/b875/index.html). Think about why resilience is such an essential quality and what caring adults, teachers, and schools can do to promote resilience.
Next, choose one of the sections of the bulletin to reread:
• The Definition of Resilience
• Personal Characteristics Related to Resilience
• Familial Environmental Factors
• Academic Environmental Factors
• Fostering Resilience
With these thoughts in mind:
By Day 3:
Post your response to at least two of the following questions:
• What is resilience?
• Why is resilience so important?
• What did you learn about resilience that made the deepest impression on you?
• How can caring and concerned adults help to foster resilience in children?
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