Resilience: Raising Kids Who Can Handle Hard Things

Resilience isn’t about making life easy for our kids—it’s about helping them build the confidence and skills to handle hard things when they come.

In this conversation, we’ll explore what resilience really looks like in children and how parents can nurture it through everyday challenges. We’ll unpack the difference between supporting and rescuing, why age-appropriate struggle matters, and how to respond to big emotions without immediately stepping in to fix them.

Andrea Robbins will be joined by Dr. Hilary Buff, a clinical psychologist who works with children, teens, young adults, and families. With a Psy.D. in Clinical Psychology and a Master’s in Education, Dr. Hilary brings experience across private practice, schools, camps, hospitals, and businesses, with a practical and collaborative approach to helping families move forward with confidence.

Parents will leave with strategies for helping kids tolerate frustration, cope with disappointment, problem-solve, and learn from mistakes. We’ll also explore how our own fears and reactions can shape our children’s experiences with challenges—and how we can help them develop the powerful belief: “This is hard, and I can handle it.”