‘Fall seven times, stand up eight’: Here’s how to raise confident, resilient children

Born cooked. That’s my mother’s way of describing how some children come into the world with strong personality traits that can only come from their ‘nature’. My daughter came out as the most independent little thing, my son was born a rogue, and my smallest veers towards the super sensitive. Their little personalities swirl and shape according to the world around them. Their traits enhanced or stunted depending on how we parent them, their environment...