In my work as a parent Carer representative and as a SEN TA and even as a care worker for young people in the care system, we are not using this word enough in our day to day living.
Even in my personal life I see families and children and young people who when life gets a little tough or they don’t get what they want, they collapse and breakdown. They can’t cope.
Most of these individuals wouldn’t have anything wrong with them necessarily either, but we are not teaching them that life at times can suck. And when it does, we have to say, it’s fine to wallow for a short while, but then you need to pick yourself up, dust yourself off and choose a different route to your destination.
Life is a journey, it forever evolves but my not teaching resilience in children and young people, we are opening the mental health can of worms.
There is already a rise on those using mental health services and don’t get me wrong not everything is down to resilience, but I think some of it is. High expectations and undue pressure that people, parents and the young people place on themselves has to stop. Otherwise the complaints for waiting times on these services will be a lot worse than the 180 days quoted in the press.
This is all without a mention about Social Emotional Mental Health, well just about.
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