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CONFIDENCE BUILDING
Simple ways to build up confidence in children.
Always remember confident children grow to become confident and
successful adults.
- Give your child lots of love and attention.
Show the child that you are interested in what he is doing. Spend
a lot of quality time with each other.
- Respect his individuality. He doesn’t
have to think the way you do. If you think he is doing something
wrong give him reasons for the same.
- Be very generous in praising your child. When
he has done a great job try appreciate the good job done.
- Experiment with a little touches to replace
words. Little strokes on the forehead or hands or just sitting
close go a long way in introducing touch into your relationship
and in building confidence.
- Expose the child to reasons for taking some
family decisions and the try and inform them in advance before
the incident happens.
- Introduce him to his roots. Relate old family
stories and incidences to your child.
- To make your child independent and confident
give your child space and don’t try and
invade into it.
- Teach him to care for other people and not
to belittle people whenever he gets the opportunity to do so.
- Accepting your child’s feelings will
help him to respect them too. Accept his apologies and offer your
own.
- Jealousy, anger, frustration and resentment
should be dealt with not buried. Burying these feelings
will only reduce your child's confidence.
- Recap and reflect on the days events with your
child. Read books with story lines to your child starting at a
very early age.
- Don’t remove your anger and frustrations
on your child.
- Always try and eat together and don’t
and don’t ignore your child’s bad table manners.
- Help to boost your child’s self confidence.
- Communicate with your child time and time again.
A communication gap creates a lot of misunderstandings.
- Don’t ever compare. Every child has his
own uniqueness and positive qualities. Try and get him over his
negative qualities and grow up to become a confident human being.
- Love your child the way he is. Don’t
push a child to do too much too soon. Too much pressure may make
him retaliate.
- Make clear simple and consistent rules. Stick
to them and see to it that your children also stick to them.
- Trust your child and help him build his inner
strength and confidence. Teach him to trust his instincts.
- When in trouble help him to get out of it and
don’t criticize him.
- Watch his friends. As the company so the color.
- Expose your child to spirituality.
Spirituality goes a long way in building a child's confidence.
- Try and develop a good reading habit at a very
young age.
- Don’t complain about your child’s
school in front of him. He will loose his confidence in his
school.Always maintain a good relationship with
his school teacher.
- Respond sensitively to his failures. Failure
is always a stepping stone to success.
- Involve him in your social gatherings.
- Don’t have unrealistic expectations from
him.
Remember that building confidence in your child should be
started at an early age. A good start is almost
like half done. |