7 Strengths
Belonging: Being a valued, cherished member of a community Celebrate and value your culture, language, ancestors, elders, traditions, food, songs, and history by sharing stories with your child.
Curiosity: A willingness to explore new territory and test new theories
Ask questions about your child’s interests and ideas. Share your own. Create a “curiosity window.” Look out your window each day and keep track of what you see, hear, and wonder about. Friendship: Having close, trusting relationships with and personal connections to others Create a friendship check-in schedule for your family. Connect with family members with encouraging messages, phone calls, or texts. Show appreciation for how your child is your reading friend when he or she reads aloud to you. Kindness: Being compassionate toward others; expressing tenderness that has an impact, near and far Help your child create a special, cozy camp space. If you can, keep paper, pencils, crayons, and books nearby. Offer your child compliments, such as “Great work!” and “Well done!”. Confidence: Thinking independently, expressing ideas, and pushing through the hard parts with assurance Learn something new together or tell a story about a time when you learned something. Encourage your child to share LitCamp activities with you, such as retelling stories, singing songs, and playing games. Draw, write, or make up and act out stories together. Courage: Having the strength to stand up for yourself, for others, and to take action when it is needed Model bravery by trying something new with your child. Be courageous by allowing your child to see you do something outside of your comfort zone. Share a story about a courageous family member or ancestor. Hope: Thinking optimistically and believing that today’s efforts will produce good things in the future for yourself and the world Create a shared calendar. Fill it with positive events and joyful celebrations for the future. Affirm a hope and a dream of your child’s and share one of your own.
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