Raise a Resilient Child (Toolkit)

Step #1:

Parenting for Resilience (Audio & Transcript)

In this powerful audio, Dr. Laura Markham walks you through what it really takes to raise a resilient child—from emotional safety to mindset development. You’ll learn how to help your child recover from setbacks, face challenges with confidence, and thrive in the face of everyday stressors.

You'll learn:

• What resilience really means—and what gets in the way.
• The role of anxiety and the role of safety.
• Nature vs nurture.
• The #1 factor that builds emotional resilience in children.
• How your relationship with your child shapes their ability to bounce back.
• Practical ways to encourage a growth mindset (without evaluation or pressure).

Step #2:

Download the Building Blocks of Resilience Printable

Do you know which parenting practices foster resilience and which parenting practices undermine it?  This delightful printable helps you see clearly which parenting habits help you raise a resilient child.

Start by choosing just one of these practices. What will encourage you to make this practice an ongoing part of your life? What support can you give yourself? Write your next step down on a sticky note and put it up where you'll see it every day this week. 

Step #3:

Listen to Blueprint for Resilience (Audio + Transcript)

In this inspiring audio, Dr. Laura Markham walks you through the inner workings of resilience—what it really is, how we build it, and how you can support your child to grow stronger through life’s challenges.

Whether your child is facing everyday setbacks or big emotional hurdles, this blueprint gives you the foundation to help them bounce back—and even thrive. Don't miss the list of Practices that Foster Resilience at the end!

The transcript is with the audio if you want to follow along.

You'll learn:

• How to help your child grow through challenges rather than get stuck.
• The mindset shifts that help you stop “fighting with life” and start adapting with grace.
• 10 key habits that support your own resilience and model it for your child.
• How to support your child emotionally so they feel seen, soothed, and capable.

Step #4:

Blueprint for Resilience (Printable)

If you enjoyed the Blueprint for Resilience Audio, you'll love this printable. We took the list of research-derived practices that help us as adults to develop our own Resilience, and created this printable, which gives you a powerful overview of the daily mindset shifts, habits, and emotional tools that build resilience—not just in kids, but in the whole family. 

You’ll learn what it really takes to support your child in becoming more adaptable, emotionally strong, and confident—while modeling that same emotional strength yourself. 

This isn’t a list of lofty ideals—it’s a science-backed blueprint you can refer to again and again. Print and post to keep these practices top of mind!

Step #5:

Grit - Coaching Kids to Recover from Setbacks (Printable)

One of the most important aspects of Resilience is recovering from setbacks. So today we have a printable that you can share with your child: a cheat sheet on how to help your child (and yourself) develop this essential skill: GRIT: Recovering from Setbacks. 

Notice that before your child can reframe and recover, they have to grieve. That's why our empathy is so important! When your child feels heard and understood, it facilitates the process of moving through the grief -- so they can move past the disappointment. 

This printable helps you guide your child through those hard moments when things don’t go as planned—without shame, lectures, or fixing everything for them.

Instead, you’ll learn how to support your child with tools that build confidence, emotional strength, and a mindset that says: “I can handle this.”

Use it during everyday challenges like missed routines, disappointments, or meltdowns—and help your child develop the inner strength to try again.

Wrap-Up

You can’t shield your child from every challenge. But you can give them the inner strength to face life’s ups and downs—and come out stronger.

The Raise a Resilient Child Toolkit gives you simple, science-backed tools to help your child develop confidence, emotional strength, and the ability to recover and grow through setbacks.

You’ll also build your own resilience along the way—so you can stay grounded, connected, and present, even in the hardest moments.

This toolkit isn’t about doing more. It’s about doing what matters—day by day, moment by moment, in ways that transform your family from the inside out.