Children's Confidence - TOO PRECIOUS
Children's Queries
Your degree of confidence is the trust or faith that you have in yourself and your abilities.
Self esteem is the opinion you have of yourself.
Why building confidence is important for children?
Confidence helps you make safe, informed decisions.
Confident children are more likely to be assertive, positive, engaged, enthusiastic and persistent.
Children with good confidence learn more, achieve more, have more friends and are generally happier than those with low levels of confidence.
Challenges to our self-esteem and confidence are a part of everyday life. The important thing is to learn how to overcome failure and negative experiences.
Below are several suggestions for how you can begin to work on establishing better self-esteem and become more confident:
- Stop judging yourself by what happens to you in life, so you're not basing your confidence on outside events.
- Show confidence in your own actions.
- Offer help and support to others, but not too much of it
- Acknowledge your efforts when you deal with adversity
- Avoid creating short cuts or making exceptions
- Give yourself new challenges
- Encourage curiosity
- Forgive yourself and others for past mistakes. Harboring old grudges takes up a lot of time and energy you could be using in more productive ways.
- Treat mistakes as building blocks for learning
- Find Opportunities to Spend More Time with others
- Fantasize About the Future
- Open Your Home to Friends
- Learn to think differently. When you fall into self-criticism and unconfident thoughts, note them and change them to positive thoughts.
- Talk about your problems.
- Develop more Acceptances.
- Learn Good Mannerisms.
- Give and take Genuine Compliments.
- Celebrate the excitement of learning.
- Applaud your courage to try something new.
- Set goals on the basis of what you can realistically achieve, and then work step-by-step to develop your potential.
- Don’t laugh at other kids’ ideas, no matter how outlandish they are.
- Celebrate your successes.
- Teach something to younger ones.
- Go in unfamiliar social situations.
- Figure out problems by yourselves
E) Emphasize your strengths. Focus on what you can do rather than what you cannot.
- Learn to play a musical instrument.
- Involve yourself with mom in the kitchen.
- Enable your creativity
- Encourage practice to build competence
- Appreciate effort no matter if they win or lose