Resilience in middle childhood

Introduction

 Resilience in the middle childhood is the ability of a child to adapt positively to his or her situation despite its negatives. It also involves the capacity the child has to overcome major stress that comes his or her way. Resilience gives children the ability to overcome that which their peers may not be in position to overcome. It is also good to note that a child can be resilient but in some other times he or she might be overwhelmed by the prevailing situations.

            It should be noted carefully that middle childhood is the developing period of a child’s life. The child at this stage receives a lot of public devotion and self-awareness is focused to several facets of corporeal development and abilities. Having the physical advancement visible,  the child’s self-perception is affected in addition to how the child is regarded by other people. Other peers and adults tend to treat them differently which may affect the children’s patrician affiliations. Those who develop early may end up feeling obstinate whereas the late developers feel as if they are not normal for they are not developing as fast as their peers. Those children who are resilient will appreciate themselves with this differences while others struggle with stress of who and how they are compared to their age mates. Others lose confidence, which makes them less presentable as peers to even their fellows.

            Flexibility is of great importance to children who are brought up in a punitive environment both at home and school. We have children who are brought up in awkward environments where the parents are drug addicts who will always solve their differences by fighting. This children grow up with a lot of bitterness and sometimes do not have the ability to keep friends because they are shaped by their environment as harsh people (Werner & Smith 2001). This kids might think that all their differences can only be solved by fighting because of what they have seen with their parents. This can be a source of stress to the children because they might not be willing to live as their parents do but already the character is in them. It calls for the few resilient ones to learn and adapt a good and likeable character from elsewhere while still in the poor environment created by their parents. This might serve as the only way to curb their hostility and misunderstanding of concepts (Werner & Smith 2001).

            We have issues where children lose their parents while still in school maybe in very tender age. This is always a major reason for the failure of some of this children in life, the children might fail to recover from the agony brought by the death of the parents leaving the gap unfilled. Changing the environment of these children might serve as a physical solution but not mental and emotional (Werner & Smith 2001). Resilient children are the only ones who survive this by finding affection from other adults whom they are close to and try to fill the gap of having their parents gone. This helps them to reduce stress and become even more ambitious in working towards their goals and dreams and avoid being victims of historical misfortunes. However, skills can also be a major source that stress peers when they realize they lack a field of excellence (Werner & Smith 2001). They should learn to be flexible and find their own fields of excellence other than those that prove hard to them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

References

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Werner, E. E., & Smith, R. S. (2001). Journeys from childhood to midlife: Risk, resilience and     recovery. Ithaca, NY [u.a.: Cornell Univ. Press.  Bottom of Form