Resilience research shows that children develop resilience best when they have a full handful of adults who regularly provide them with emotional support. Each significant adult is someone who can be trusted by the child for mentoring, training and answers to life’s questions. They are adult storytellers in the life of your children.
In tough times, the greater the variety of adults, children have someone to trust for counsel. Providing your children with a variety of adults – from different walks of life – gives them a wider spectrum of life experience to choose from when seeking a mentor.
Typical significant adults include parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, teachers, chaplains, school staff, coaches, club leaders, church leaders, neighbours, extended family and any other regular adults in your children’s lives.
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