Which Comes First, Resilience or Self-Esteem?
A pattern that shows up very often in studies of resilience is a high correlation between resilience and self-esteem…
YSO Insights serves two audiences with a shared purpose: keeping children safe and helping them thrive. For administrators and staff of youth-serving organizations, that means evidence-based guidance on child protection policy, mandated reporting, screening, and investigations. For Plan B parents — foster, adoptive, kinship, stepparents, and blended families — it means honest, practical guidance from people who have been there. For both, it means evidence-based ideas to encourage resilience and protect futures.
Suppose one of your kids takes forty dollars from your purse and lies about it for a week. You forgive him quickly. What you shouldn’t do is leave your purse open on the counter again. Global Forgiveness Day fell last week on July 7, and every...
Debbie Ausburn · July 14, 2026
Read Post →A pattern that shows up very often in studies of resilience is a high correlation between resilience and self-esteem…
In my last post, I discussed the 20+ years of research on the possible effects of adverse childhood experiences…
Bullying issues get a lot of attention these days, because everyone wants to spare children the trauma of true bullying…
One topic that I have been pondering lately is how families manage adversity and teach their children to be resilient…
One of the most important, and difficult, ways that we can encourage resilience in children is to allow them…