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[quote=Anonymous]It depends on what you are referring to.

If you are talking about stuff that just happens and no one has any control over it, and you just want to reassure a parent that their kid will survive this, then yes, kids are resilient. Or at least they can be. Take Covid. It sucks! I've worried so much this year about its impact on my kid. But I do comfort myself that humans generally are pretty resilient, and that if we put in effort and make the best of things, my kid will get through this crazy time okay. I have to believe that.

But yeah, kids have to learn resiliency, and they usually do that by having resilient parents who are patient with them and demonstrate/teach social-emotional skills that will help them get through life. You don't teach a kid to be resilient by abusing him, and you are 100% right that the impact of trauma on children can last a lifetime -- just ask my therapist.

I think the key is to remember that kids have the capacity for resiliency, but that they are still young, impressionable people who need a lot of guidance and love. If a child goes through something traumatic, they have a great capacity to heal and learn and move forward, but they will need help just like anyone would.

A lot of times people just don't want to deal with consequences, so they just assume kids will forget about awful things they go through and then they won't matter. That's false.[/quote]

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