| Building Your Child's Self Esteem |
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Building child self esteem must be provided by the parents. Parents plays important role in building child self esteem which help a child to be confident in all things. Your self esteem is a compilation of how you feel about yourself. It constitutes the relationship of your self to your environment such as your work and everything that is within your grasp. How do we foster or boast the self esteem for our children. We must teach them character value principles such as honesty. Honesty is the best policy, which is implied in every situation. Expecting them to be honest in every situation of their lives will help them appreciate good values and be able to sense what's wrong and right. For every situation you must be frank or true with your child on telling them what is the real meaning. Example of it that when a child ask you if his or her work is fine tell him/her straight with correct judgment, if it is not fine with you tell him/her to add more effort such as the drawing work that your child presented or works he/she did. Be frank with him/her so he/she will believe you and not to be easily be afraid to show his/her work. Give your child complements in his/her work. It is important to discipline your child in his/her behavior sometimes they act different way as you want it. They forget the things they learn easily because of their child-like attribute but you must teach them character value traits. When you discipline your children you must concentrate to their behavior not within the person. You can positive influence and foster their self esteem. if you are mad you must control your self , you must look for their behavior not for their self just to avoid negativity to them. Say something like "I don't like when you leave you slippers anywhere or toys anywhere", this address their behavior . Please be caution and have control when this situation arises. Give your children some freewill in terms of decision-making. Let them decides from themselves, you don't need them to tell what to do or tell what to wear on Sunday and tell them where to go. Just give them freewill to their choices and let them think of it, if it is right or wrong or make them select what best for them. This will train them how become self reliant, independent and will acquire this traits until they grow to be an adult. Foster your child talents by encouraging them to join any life-meaningful activities such as piano lessons, voice lessons, singing contest activities , swimming, sports, academic training and etc . This will build self-confidence and skills. Your children need to try or experiments new things in order to grow without fear and having courage set in their minds. This will help them succeed or learn mistakes when they fail. If the children never try or experiment new things they will have a problem in the future. Life is full of obstacles and challenges if the children never try, then the chances for them are limited and worst they will never succeed to life's battle. Such as training your children while they are young. Give them small task while they are still young and up to bigger work, having this kind of idea will help then appreciate and gain understanding to bigger task and it will be much easier for then cope up work. They will appreciate this when they are already in college, finding a career in life or being employed to a company. Therefore, the most important thing is to keep in mind that little things add up like talents, character traits such as courage, initiative, correct choices. Parent should be cautious to give their child sense of directions and which and parents should explain to their children the meaning or effects of their choices. Taking time for everything for your children to learn and absorb things in order them fully realize their potential. Always be consistence in your teaching, recognize the potentials of your children, this will make your children grow to be confident, more productive in home and in our society. |
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