HOW TO BUILD SELF CONFIDENCE IN KIDS

Simple ways to bring up self confident kids

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. This really helps in improving his self confidence.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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 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.

Try and develop a good reading habit at a very young age.

Don"t complain about your child's school in front of him. Always maintain a good relationship with his school teacher.

Another great way to build your childs self confidence is to 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.

It is a common question that plays on every parents mind " how to build self confidence in kids ".But with patient and following the guidelines above dedicately we can all achieve it..