Through the summer months we often wonder how best to support our young people. How can we use this unstructured time to build up their life skills and resilience? Should we book summer camps? Should we travel and let them experience different cultures and different climates? Should we leave them at home, allow them to get bored and sit back and watch their creativity emerge? Of course, our children will benefit from all the above, structured and unstructured time is important as is exposure to different people and places. BUT what really matters for all our children is their relationships with the people who really care about them – their family, their cousins, their uncles, their aunties, their grandparents, their community, close family friends…. these are the people who contribute to their relational wealth. Relational wealth is a relatively new concept from Dr Bruce Perry, an American Psychiatrist who writes extensively on resilience and traum...