Tips For Helping Raise Your Children To Be More Confident

If you are a parent, you likely know the value of good self esteem. You naturally want your children to have this helpful characteristic because you know that they will be able to help them in life. Here are some tips for making sure that you are able to raise your children with high self esteem.

1. Model Confidence

One of the easiest ways to help instill confidence in your child is to have confidence yourself. There's a good chance that you are not one hundred percent confident in everything that you do, and that's okay. What's important is that you work on being more confident. You should try to model confidence in two  ways. The first way that you should model confidence is by not criticizing yourself or anyone else in front of your children. When you criticize yourself, it shows that you do not think highly of yourself, which is a telltale sign of low confidence. If you criticize others, there's a risk that your child will equate putting down others with being confident, when in reality people who are confident don't need to put down other people.

The second way is to take risks and be upfront when you are wrong. If you can model to your children that you are confident enough to take risks, to fail, and to admit that you were wrong, your child will receive the message that you are willing to do all of these things because you are confident enough of your own worth to do things that are risky because you know that your worth will not be diminished because of it.

2. Interact With Your Child on Your Child's Terms

Next, you want to try to interact and play with your child on your child's terms. Your child is going to like things that you think are dumb or boring, and that's okay. It's okay for you to not want to play the same board game for the twentieth time in a row. However, you need to pretend like you are enjoying the things that your child likes. Much of your child's sense of self comes from the things that he or she likes, and if you like or at least pretend to like the things that he or she likes, then you will be validating their sense of self.

3. Stay Away From Labels

Finally, you want to make sure that you stay away from labels in order to make sure you don't pen your child into a box that he or she might not necessarily want to be a part of. By doing this, you will be able to allow your child to have more of a say over what he or she is.

For more information, contact Aikido Northshore or a similar institution.

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