117-Resilience

Today we’re talking about resilience.  Resilience in kids, how we talk to kids and also how we as adults think about resilience. 

 

Transcript:

 

Welcome to Everyday Happiness where we create lasting happiness, in 2 minutes a day,  through my signature method of Intentional Margins® (creating harmony between your to-dos and your priorities), happiness science, and musings about life. 

 

I'm your host Katie Jefcoat and as we start the school year over here in the US, most kids are starting out back in the classroom after being home in 2020 during a global pandemic.  

 

The conversations the parents and administrators are having is striking to me and I think it directly reflects anxiety and uncertainty in adults and probably has less to do about the kids.  

 

I’ve been hearing a lot of conversation about “loss”.  Loss of the last year.  Learning loss is literally in every meeting.  

 

But why aren’t we also talking about “resilience” - I think we, as a society, are doing ourselves a disservice if we’re not celebrating the resilience, both of the parents and the kids.  

 

There are real learning gaps, but this is about reframing from negative, bad and terrible -- you can create self fulfilling prophecies, to instead celebrate what we can do right now to close that gap.  

 

It’s overwhelmingly clear, the majority of us parents totally suck as teachers and were not that good at managing a home classroom over the past year.  Me included.  But we did do some things right.  And I think you could probably tick off a few things you did right.  

 

One way to find out is to ask our kids to write a highlight reel of the last year and talk about the successes.   

 

Adults, we can do this too.  We can write a highlight year that focus our attention to some of the positive. To give proof to the universe of our own resilience.  To prove to ourselves we are resilient.  

 

I invite you to reflect on this past 18 months, and celebrate your resilience.  You’re here, for starters.  You decided to listen to a micro-podcast on happiness, that’s incredible.  You’ve already created one Intentional Margin® today but pressing play for 2 minutes.  I am confident the list goes on and on.  

 

I think sometimes we forget, in the business, of just how much we’ve accomplished and just how resilient we actually are.  

 

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