1. Describe your own experiences with resilience. How resilient have you had to be in your life? Have you been more resilient at some points and less resilient at others? Does your experience with resilience match the complex patterns described in developmental theory? Why or why not?
2. Which types of situations or challenges are more likely to overwhelm you and which types do you tend to manage well? Why?
3. In this part of the lesson, we saw that some children are good at assessing risk realistically, and some are good at identifying opportunities in their environment. How well do you assess risk and opportunities? Do you do one better than the other? Then select one of the options below to write about:
4. For the one(s) you do well: How did you learn to do this? What processes do you use to control your emotions and think the problem through? If you were to advise another person on how to develop this skill set, what lessons would you share with them?
5. Do you think it would be worth it to explicitly teach children (or adults) how to assess risk and opportunities more realistically? If no, why not? If yes, share one idea about how we could do this.
6. Is there a way to promote resilience without making children who have not developed these skills feel even more inadequate? How would you suggest doing this?