PARENTAL RESILIENCE: ACTIVITY 1 FAMILY SHIELD:

PARENTAL RESILIENCE: ACTIVITY 1FAMILY SHIELD: HONORING EACH FAMILIES UNIQUENESSDescription: Make a shield representing your family or group. Example of family shield: Last nameletter, family members, family flag, favorite family activity, your favorite activity, pets or hobbies.Everyday Action: Honor each family’s race, language, culture, history and approach to parenting.Rational: Every person is an individual with their own identity. Everyone comes from differentfamilies with different cultural backgrounds and strengths. A family who recognizes their culturalstrengths sets a strong foundation for higher levels of self-esteem.We also have a family identity; the place our family lives, the number of people in our family,outings/hobbies, foods, religion.etc. These things all make our families unique. Each family hastheir own strengths; their own culture. These strengths should be celebrated!Take your ideas about your family and make a Family Shield.Instruct them to draw the following in the boxes:Box 1: In a capital letter write the first letter of yourlast name as fancy as you can.Box 2: List the members of your familyBox 3: Draw a family flagBox 4: Draw a family activity you do together (hobby,sport, eating dinner together, picnic, beach)Box 5: Draw or write your favorite thing to do.Box 6: Draw or write about your pets, or draw ananimal to represent your family.Materials Needed: Colored Pencils, Crayons, Markers, Pencils, Shield Template CopiesFor Further information, go 02/family-shield-its-all-in-name-self.html

PARENTAL RESILIENCE: ACTIVITY 210 PHRASES YOU HEAR IN RESILIENT FAMILIESDescription: 10 Examples of the lanugage of resilience, the coping skills each reflects and thetypes of situations in which they are applicable.Everyday Action: Using the language of resilience to cope with the inevitable tough times thateach person experiences.Rational: esilient-families-are-you-using-them/?utm source facebook&utm medium post&utm campaign editorial

PARENTAL RESILIENCE: ACTIVITY 3MAKING CONNECTIONS AND NURTURING EMPATHYDescription: Examples of Picture Books demonstratingEmpathy; followed by making Text Connections.Everyday Action: Connecting to others with empathyRational: Common exercise – text- text, text- self, text-world

PARENTAL RESILIENCE: ACTIVITY 3MAKING CONNECTIONS AND NURTURING EMPATHYDescription: Examples of Picture Books demonstratingEmpathy; followed by making Text Connections.Everyday Action: Connecting to others with empathyRational: Common exercise – text- text, text- self, picture-books-to-teach-empathy.html

PARENTAL RESILIENCE: ACTIVITY 4MANAGING STRESS EFFECTIVELYDescription: 30 Proven Stress ReducersEveryday Action: Encourage parents to manage stress effectivelyRational: Children model their parents’ behaviors, including thoserelated to managing stress. Parents who deal with stress in unhealthyways risk passing those behaviors on to their children. Alternatively,parents who cope with stress in healthy ways can not only promotebetter adjustment and happiness for themselves, but also promote theformation of critically important habits and skills in ress/L20.pdf

PARENTAL RESILIENCE: ACTIVITY 5INDIVIDUAL VALUEDescription: Activity reinforcing the need for everyone tocontribute and the variety of skills and talents everyone bringsto the group. Set up small canvases on aisle around the table,a small canvas for each individual.Everyone begins by painting whatever they want for 3 minutes.When the timer goes off, each person moves to the nextcanvas and adds on to the previous painting until everyone hasgone to each canvas.Everyday Action: Honor each family’s race, language, culture,history and approach to parenting.Rational:This exercise reinforces the fact that as we shareabout ourselves and our culture we can produce a canvas ofbeauty. Each individual adds to the overall picture of the group.Materials needed: Blank canvas for each member of the group including, enough paints for avariety of color. Paintbrushes. Water. Wet wipes/paper towels. TimerActivity time: 30 minutes – 1 HourOpen Discussion: Leave 10 minutes for questions. “What do you notice? “

RESILIENCY QUOTES“The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists”. – Japanese Proverb“Resilience is knowing that you are the only one that has the power and responsibility to pickyourself up”. – Mary Holloway“Turn your demons into art, your shadow into a friend, your fear into fuel, your failures intoteachers, your weakness into reasons to keep fighting. Don’t waste your pain. Recycle yourheart”. – Andrea Ball“Honor the space between no longer, and not yet”. – Nancy Levin“Women are like tea bags. You never know how strong they are until they’re in hot water”.– Eleanor Roosevelt“I haven’t failed. I’ve found 10,000 ways that won’t work”. –Thomas Edison“If all you can do is crawl, start crawling”. – Rumi“Owning your story is the bravest thing you will ever do”. – Brene Brown“When you change the way you look at things; the things you look at change”. – Wayne Dyer“It is your reaction to adversity, not the adversity itself, that determines how your life’s story willdevelop”. – Deiter F. Uchtorf

May 18, 2016 · PARENTAL RESILIENCE: ACTIVITY 2 10 PHRASES YOU HEAR IN RESILIENT FAMILIES Description: 10 Examples of the lanugage of resilience, the coping skills each reflects and the types of situations in which they are applicable. Everyday Action: Using the language of resilience to cope with