Self-confidence helps children cope more easily with all school activities and make important friendships with peers. In early adolescence, children with a high level of self-confidence can more easily solve problems, create stronger relationships with others, resist the bad tendencies of their environment and think for themselves. Self-confident children grow up to be ambitious people who are ready for all the challenges that await them in the outside world.
For all these reasons, it's important to start working on boosting your child's self-esteem early. Below we will reveal 5 useful methods that will help you make your child a more confident person.
Be a good role model
Children imitate their parents, so it is important to show them how to behave by your example. Be confident in communicating with other people, do not hide from responsibilities and new challenges, and show endurance and motivation when you are not doing everything you can. Your children will internalize these virtues through observation and chances are they will be just as confident as you.
Photo: PixabayYou constantly strive to raise your child's self-esteem
Praise him when he deserves it, and when he doesn't, make sure you don't completely break his spirit with your objections. Help him overcome difficulties and learn lessons from his failures. Let him know that he is a good person and that there is no reason for him to feel insecure in front of others.
Adapt to your child's temperament
All people are different, even children. Certain methods of raising self-esteem are effective for some children and useless for others. For this reason, it is especially important to adapt to the child's temperament and not, for example, be too strict if he is sensitive or too lukewarm if he can handle criticism.
Photo: Olia Danilevich / PexelsPay attention to your communication
Never tell your child that he is acting like a baby, that he is oversensitive, and that he should finally come to his senses. These are negative messages that leave wounds and people keep them in our consciousness even when we grow up. They shame the children and do not help them at all to experience themselves in the right way and walk proudly through life.
Let children know that what they think of themselves is more important than what others think of them
In this way, they will learn to be independent and proud of their achievements, regardless of whether they have received praise from others or not.
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