Fortitude

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Unleash Your Parenting Potential with Fortitude

Learn what defines this parenting strength, what motivates your parenting, how to gain energy, areas to contribute your best, and what to avoid to reduce struggles in parenting.

Description

Never gives up; does whatever it takes to help, love, and raise kid right; always step up; always keep trying.

Motivators

Goal Achievement & Morality

Energizers

Accomplishment, Closure, Finishing, Right Action

Contributions

Grit, Sticking to What is Right, Seeing Something Through To The End

Struggles

Stubbornness, Inability to Flex and Bend, Inability to Quit, Sunk Costs

Use Your Fortitude Strength to Meet Your Child's Basic Needs

Learn how to use this parenting strength to show love, build trust, give hope, establish structure, and bring correction for bringing out the best in your child.

Show Love

Show exuberant belief in child
Patiently endure faults and failures
Stay positive through difficulties

Build Trust

Be dependable, especially in hard times
Follow through on commitments
Be unwilling to waver in support of child

Give Hope

Express your belief that the child can overcome challenges
Instill confidence by affirming strengths
Remind kids “we’re in this together”

Establish Structure

Establish mental and physical toughness
Set expectation to finish what’s started
Keep positive attitude in the midst of difficulty

Bring Correction

Challenge choices and actions to give up
Affirm standards of attitude and behavior
Point to benefits of resilience and a courageous character

Use These Strategies Today to Feel Confident and Truly Make a Difference in Your Family

Strategies

Set goals for self & family: who you want to be; habits to become better
Take care emotionally, physically, and mentally to avoid exhaustion
Simplify everything to what really matters and focus on and hold firm to those things

Fortitude

Listen as Clarence shares how he uses his Fortitude strength to parent his three daughters in this interview with Cynthia.

Find the Best of You

While there are common ways that parents use their Fortitude strength, how you use this strength to the full extent is unique to you when combined with your other parenting strengths.

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