It sounds as if you've developed a fair amount of resilience, a quality researchers haven't quite managed to wrestle to the ground yet, although they've defined it to death. It seems to result from some combination of nature (some people exhibit resilience from birth) and practice (learning to cope makes one better able to cope, which makes it easier to learn more coping skills...).
And yes, parents can help foster a child's native resilience by giving them a sense that no matter what goes wrong in the child's world, some things - being loved, for instance - are a given.
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Date: 2007-08-24 03:03 pm (UTC)And yes, parents can help foster a child's native resilience by giving them a sense that no matter what goes wrong in the child's world, some things - being loved, for instance - are a given.