How do you build your child’s emotional resilience?
Perhaps unsurprisingly the state of our children’s mental wellbeing is one of the main issues keeping parents up at night. It seems that hardly a week goes by without headlines reporting increasing levels of anxiety among young people. Recent research found that one in six children aged five to 16 were identified as having a mental health disorder, - that’s at least five children in a class of 30 students.[1]
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