Resilient children 1. What is resilience, give your own concept? Resilience is the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties, adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats, or even significant sources of stress. 2. How children can build resilience? I think that children can build resilience if we show them that they are important and that they have an important space in the society. If we teach them to solve their own problems. If we provide support and company. If we give them attention 3. Do you think that if we build resilient children it can affect their personalities? I believe that resilience affects their personalities in a positive way, because it becomes an instrument that allows them to face any problem. Their personalities will be stronger and they will acquire the ability to overcome the ups and downs of life by themselves. 4. As a teacher, do you think that it is a good idea to build resilience in order to help children overcome a traumatic event? Yes. I think is a good idea because resilience is a fundamental psychological tool that wills that will strengthen the capacity for recovery in some bad situation that they may face. 5. How can schools help raise resilient kids without affecting their personalities? Schools present many challenges and the way in which we help kids to manage them is one of the ways they learn to face the challenges on life. Schools can do use of strengths, interests, goal and dream of kids to help them to be resilient. 6. What strategies do you think parents, families, teachers and schools can use to build resilient kids? Give an example of each one. Parents: can help them to strengthen their self-esteem and to keep a perspective and a positive attitude. Families: can establish good relationships; stablish a family tradition like eating together sharing the best and worst time of day. Teachers: they can be interested in them and be a friend for them. Teachers can create a positive and safe classroom environment where students feel respected and loved. Schools: can foster relationships among students where communication, respect, empathy and cooperation predominate instead of competition.