Help Your Middle or High Schooler Learn to Handle Hard Things

You want to protect your kid from disappointment, failure, stress, and the things that hurt.

But you also know you can’t remove every hard thing from their life. And sometimes it’s difficult to know when to step in, when to step back, and how to help without immediately fixing the problem for them.

Goby Essentials: Resilience is a practical parenting resource for parents of middle and high school students who want to help their kids learn how to face challenges, recover from setbacks, and keep moving forward.

At Goby, we believe every kid needs five big things to grow strong: Safety, Identity, Gratitude, Resilience, and Purpose. This guide focuses on Resilience and gives you practical ways to help build it during the middle and high school years.

You’ll learn how to help your teen work through challenges instead of immediately solving them, talk differently about mistakes and failure, develop problem-solving skills, manage stress, and know when to ask for help.  

What’s Included

• Practical ways to help your middle or high schooler build resilience
• Questions to use when your teen is facing something hard
• Tools for helping your teen reframe setbacks and failure
• Ideas for modeling resilience in your own life
• Scripture and faith-based encouragement
• Journal prompts for you as a parent
• A reflection and action worksheet
• A simple “Hard Thing” challenge to use with your teen
• Words you can begin using at home to encourage resilience    

Building resilience doesn’t mean your kid handles every challenge perfectly. In fact, some of the best opportunities to build resilience happen when things don’t go the way they hoped.