Lions Roar: How to Raise an Emotionally Resilient Child

When my daughter was four, she said to me, “Mommy, I’m worried.” She had tension in her voice and fear in her eyes.

Concerned, I asked, “Sweetie, what are you worried about?”

With mounting frustration, she replied, “I don’t know.”

My first instinct as a parent was to get in there and try to fix it, as if I had the power to remove the painful emotion from her body. I wanted to tell her that everything was okay and there was nothing to worry about, then make her some popcorn, put in a movie, and give her an extra snuggle.