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‘Fall seven times, stand up eight’: Here’s how to raise confident, resilient children


by Amanda Cassidy
16th Oct 2023

We need to raise more risk-takers and adventurers, so how is disaster hyperbole and overprotectiveness affecting children, asks Amanda Cassidy.

Born cooked. That’s my mother’s way of describing how some children come into the world with strong personality traits that can only come from their ‘nature’. My daughter came out as the most independent little thing, my son was born a rogue, and my smallest veers towards the super sensitive. Their little personalities swirl and shape according to the world around them. Their traits enhanced or stunted depending on how we parent them, their environment...

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