Important Tips for Growing Your Child’s Self-esteem

1. 10 Important Tips for Growing Your Child’s Self-esteem

2. Your Child’s Self-esteem Is Extremely Important! Self-esteem means: Confidence in one's own worth or abilities. Self-respect. In psychology, the term self-esteem is used to describe a person's overall sense of self-worth or personal value. YOUR child's self-esteem is pending on how much they VALUE themselves and how IMPORTANT they believe they are in their world. Kids with GOOD self-esteem: - Feel proud of what they can do. - Feel liked and accepted. - Accept themselves, even when they make mistakes. - Feel capable.

3. Your Child’s Self-esteem Is Extremely Important! Kids with LOW self-esteem: - Feel unsure of themselves. - May think others will not accept them, so are afraid to join in. - Can have a hard time standing up for themselves. - May let others treat them poorly. - Often gives up easily or do not try at all.

4. 10 Tips for Growing Your Child's Self-esteem:

5. 01. Get them out walking, dancing, or doing some sort of exercise. EXERCISE releases "feel good" chemicals in the brain (known as endorphins) which help to improve their mood, energy levels and even sleep.

6. 02. Remind them that no one is perfect; not even you - and that is okay!

7. 03. Let them know that everyone makes mistakes. Teach them to look upon mistakes as an IMPORTANT part of learning and an opportunity to create or try something differently.

8. 04. Help your child learn to do NEW things. At every age, there are new things for kids to learn.

9. 05. Create challenges or tasks for them to do. Do not make these too hard or easy.

10. 06. Don't have your praise only contingent on achievements. PRAISE your child for their effort, progress, and attitude.

11. 07. Be that good self-esteem role model YOURSELF.

12. 08. Don't be harshly critical. Instead try to understand and help them with leading questions and patience.

13. 09. Celebrating and focusing on your child's STRENGTHS would help them feel good about themselves. This will also improve their behaviour.

14. 10. Encourage them to help others with KIND ACTS. This builds self-esteem and other good feelings within them. Helping others also distracts them from their own perceived shortcomings or problems.

15. “ GOOD self-esteem is ESPECIALLY important because it affects their relationships with others and the way that they approach different situations in their life. Kids with LOW self-esteem often find it hard to cope when they make a mistake, lose, or fail. As a result, they usually do not do as well in life as they are capable of doing. SO, REMEMBER... GOOD self-esteem helps kids do better at school, at home, and with friends! “

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