Are your kids a risk taker? Know its perks

These days, parents seem to go out of their way to ensure that their kids are taking the safe path. This is an attempt to try to protect them from hurting themselves physically and emotionally.

Unknowingly, we’re over-pampering them from this harmful world but not realizing that this will hamper their vital skill sets like being independent or self-sufficient. As a result, kids are becoming too safe and hence not encouraged to take calculated risks.

It’s high time parents refrain from shielding their young ones. While it might make us feel better as parents, it’s not supporting them to grow stronger. When it comes to children’s upbringing, being overprotective can increase their worries, be it while raising a young child or supporting a college-aged youth.

Below is a detailed list of how risk-taking can benefit your kids

1. It increases confidence: Fear of failure keeps many people aside from taking risks. However, you’ll become less fearful when you take a chance, whether you succeed or fail it doesn’t matter as long as you give your best shot. Your confidence continues to grow as you overcome multiple disappointments. The same applies to growing children. When your kids take the opportunity, they’ll become more sure of themselves and fearless to try new things. Moreover, developing self-confidence at an early age hardens the foundation for a confident adult.
2. Gives self-learning a chance: Yes! Risk-taking allows you to self-learn about yourself, test limitations, and gain knowledge and develop skill sets. You learn to outgrow your comfort zone and desire to live with time as it comes. It is ideal to apply this logic for your little ones while they are as small as 1 year. Kids learn their likes and dislikes and believe in themselves through taking chances like taking some independent steps to ride a bike, leading school projects, etc. This not only aids exploration but also makes them independent human beings in the long run.
3. Offers a sense of achievement: Every time you try something new or horrifying, there is a sense of effort. It is fulfilling to know that you tried something different. You will notice kids getting too excited and enthusiastic to try new things when they complete a task. Also, if a deed or activity is reinforced positively they tend to redo it. That sense of appreciation and performance encourages them to explore new activities fearlessly.
4. Boost skill development: We are all born with different talents, but they will get ignored if we do not explore them. Taking calculated risks allows your children to recognize and improve their abilities at the very nascent stage. Moreover, they develop new skills when they have a good risk-taking appetite, which builds the foundation of principles and hard work.

Tips to increase risk-taking appetite in kids:

1. Introduce risk indirectly: You can introduce risks indirectly. Sometimes, simple actions like unregulated play boost your kids to take risks. For example, provide opportunities for them to build with Legos, play with blocks, do puzzles, or paint. Unknowingly, the kids will develop artistry, problem-solving, and critical thinking riding or leading a group performance. Generally, unregulated play is a slow build-up to dicey challenges.
2. Allow them to fail gracefully: Failure is really the stepping stone to success. Here, kids can be given permission to make errors as they will not make them grow stronger but also make the end goal worthwhile. As a parent or a teacher if you don’t allow your kids to fail they will fear failure which makes them spoilsports in battles of life.
3. Teach them to play safe: Most moms put a lot of time and effort into teaching their kids lessons about safety. Whether we’re telling them to put their headgear on before going on a bike ride or setting the example by packing a first aid kit bag for our vacation days at the mountain, safety is always on every mom’s radar. Similarly, while taking a risky step in life one needs to calculate and keep backup plans in mind. One of the best ways for a child to create a sense of safety awareness is the case, by taking a risk. It indicates that kids learn their limitations and end up arranging safety measures freely when they are in situations on their own is necessary to be self-aware.

Risk-taking is a necessary part of any attempt to achieve something. You cannot attain a good outcome without taking risks. Moreover, taking risks is an essential aspect of life. Taking chances pushes us to achieve things we never thought we could do and make the world a more challenging and exciting part to live.

At Hashad Valia International School, we not design our education delivery in a professional manner but also allow scope for errors. It’s as simple as whether should I risk answering a question asked in class or not. As a professional schooling environment, we encourage kids to answer questions it doesn’t matter if you are right or wrong. Here are some noteworthy habits of a great student which is sure to set you apart from the crowd.