100 Family Media Literacy Activities, Ages Pre-School through Teen Years

Are You a “High Hopes” Parent?

Attending to Our Children’s Attention Span

Building the Foundation for Resiliency Skills

Live and Play in Your World: Stimulus Addiction and the Growing Brain

Looking for Meaning in All the Right Places

Parenting Today: The World Has Changed, Have We?

Parenting as a Living System

Reading the Screen

Screen Time and Obesity

Screen Violence: Impact on Self as Relational Being

Teaching Children Gratefulness

Building the Foundation for Resiliency Skills (cont.)

Summary

When children grow up with the many gifts of sustained love and deep attention, there exists within them a strong core identity that enables them to absorb challenge and hardship without succumbing to long-term despair or emotional damage. Resilience is the natural outgrowth of developmental stamina.
     
Our greatest tasks as parents may be to willingly accept this huge responsibility and make sure that we have the resources within ourselves to give our children the best we have, and to know that is indeed, good enough. Love does not require perfection…it requires human attention and tender care…the natural gifts we give to our children naturally each day.

(The article was adapted from Parenting Well in a Media Age, (please highlight and link to book on amazon) by Gloria DeGaetano, Personhood Press, 1995.

References

1.  as quoted in Zimmerman, J. (1994, May). “Resiliency versus risk: Helping kids help themselves.” Far West Laboratory Focus on Changing School Practice, p. 4.

2.  as quoted in Presence: Human Purpose and the Field of the Future by Peter Senge, et.al, The Society for Organizational Learning, 2003, p. 59.

3.  Martin Buber, I and Thou, translated by Walter Kaufmann, Touchstone Books, 1970.

4.  Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving, Perennial Reprint, 2000.

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