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Tips to Build Your Child’s Confidence
Confidence is a difficult concept. It includes a feeling that you have that ability to learn and work hard to achieve a goal, but it also includes self-esteem – a feeling of self-worth and that you are happy with yourself. For children, confidence comes from their parents – their influence, their attitude and their love.
Worksheets for Preschool - CompleteSet
Building your child’s confidence needs to be carefully balanced. An under-confident child is as likely to have problems as an over-confident one. You want your child to believe in their abilities and their worthiness, based on reality. That confidence will allow them to try new challenges, learn new things, and believe that their capabilities will lead them to success.
Your child needs to know, first and foremost, that you love them – no matter what they achieve. Your love is not conditional on them coming first in class or winning a race, and it is not even dependent on their behavior. You may not approve of their behavior at times, but you still love them.
Give praise when it is earned, and always give positive encouragement. Too much praise can lead to your child only doing things for the praise they get, or not making any effort at all because every little thing they do is praised by their parents. Rather use positive feedback to encourage your child – “You tried really hard”, “I’m proud of you for the work you put into that picture” – than over-doing the praise. Try to criticize the behavior, not the child, when criticism is required.
Teach your child to handle mistakes and failure. Everyone fails some time, but by helping your child recognize where mistakes were made, and why, you help them realize that they can learn from their mistakes, and do better next time.
Your child needs to learn that effort and hard work are required in order to conquer new challenges, and that practice will help to develop their skills, whether in writing or catching a ball. This important lesson will prepare them for future challenges where they will have to exert themselves to achieve success.
Self-discipline is part and parcel of self-confidence, and you need to teach your child that they are in control of their actions. It is their choice whether they keep trying and succeed, or give up when the going gets tough.
A ‘can do’ attitude is very important. Encourage your child to try new things – hitting the ball with a bat, learning to count to 10, riding a bicycle and reading a sentence – whatever it is, tell your child you believe they can do it if they try hard and practice. Eventually, they’ll believe it too – and go out and do it.
A confident child is more likely to succeed at school, socially as well as academically. The confidence you help your child to build now will last the rest of their lives, and help them in their every endeavor. You can do it too!
Resource Box: Liz Allan is the author of Worksheetsforpreschool.com She has helped hundreds of pre-school children to be better prepared for school and advance throughout their life. Visit Worksheetsforpreschool.com to help your child be confident at school.
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Happy Child Guide – #1 Parenting/Child Behavior ebook
Tired of struggling to get your child to listen?
The Happy Child Guide
The “Happy Child Guide” – a step-by-step guide to end defiance, outbursts, lying, tantrums and bad behaviors, have already helped more than 4.000 family. Whit this guide you will easily learn how to get Your child to behave and listen.. Instantly.. In any situation, without freaking out,
raising Your voice, pulling your hair out, or hurting your child’s feelings.
The Author, Dr. Blaise Ryan – Chief Medical Advisor, Child Brain Health Research Co-Author of The Happy Child Guide – A Parent’s Child Behavior Guide – will show you how to discover the hidden demons in over a dozen common discipline practices that you’ve been forced to use on your own child by your own social and family upbringing… And by all the so-called parenting teachers that teach discipline without understanding the effect of these discipline methods on your child’s brain and self-confidence. Many of these common discipline practices are really “low self-esteem fertilizers” in disguise!
You’ll also see the truth about why many so called “child behavior experts” are having you do almost all of the WRONG things.
If you really want to transform your child’s stressful behavior permanently, into a more easy, cooperative and loving relationship, then you need to be focussing on entirely different discipline tactics… that do not involve punishments or rewards…
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Talking to Toddlers: Dealing with the Terrible Twos and Beyond
Are you a parent of a young child? Are you dealing with a lot of stress or anxiety stemming from your role as a parent? Well help is at hand.
Talking to Toddlers – Dealing With the Terrible Two’s and Beyond is the ideal program for stressed parents and emotionally charged children.
Talking to Toddlers: Dealing with the Terrible Twos and Beyond
It has been used by parents in 58 different countries and ranked the Number # 1 Toddler Parenting Course.
This toolbox of powerful techniques covers most situations where parental guidance is needed.
Did you know your language can change your child’s behaviour?
Do you, when you are with your child:
- Over use the word ‘NO’
- Use negative instead of positive language
- Use threatening language
- Yell and then regret your lack of control
- Feel you are failing as a parent
- Feel impatient when your child fails to obey you
- worry about the lack of rapport between you
This program will enable you to build a loving and positive relationship with your child by teaching you how to use language in a constructive and loving way to motivate your child.
You will learn how to
- get your child to say yes to your reasonable requests instead of no
- support your child to overcome a dark mood
- get your child to stop changing his mind all the time
- side step a temper tantrum
- plant specific positive behaviour suggestions
- use consequences in the best way
- enjoy the time you spend with your child
- have emotional rapport with your child’s position
- really understand your child
- laugh and smile more
- enjoy the parental role because you have excellent parenting skills
There are twelve lessons in the course. The author advises mastery of each lesson before going on to the next one. There is homework to do for each lesson. Remember you are like most parents of young children. Very few parents are trained to deal with young children.
You can be a toddler taming, happy parent, by learning the strategies presented in this program.
I recommend you check a free video presented by the author ‘Unique Language Strategies for Parents Program’ at http://talkingtotoddlers.com/4-tips. It contains some powerful information that will enhance your parenting skills.
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PHONICS FOR KIDS IS OF FUNDAMENTAL IMPORTANCE
A person I know, who is an expert in his field, talks about the blinding flash of the obvious. Has it ever happened to you? You had not been aware of the obvious in a situation and as a result were totally stuck? It wasn’t until someone pointed out the obvious to you that you could move on.
I simply can’t understand why the education system continues to ignore the following blinding flash of the obvious.
Phonics for kids
The importance of decoding skills being taught systematically in the early years of schooling and that many students lack these skills.
I know they do. I have been told there is more to reading than decoding and my protests were discounted. I know that and it isn’t the point. Meanwhile many children lack the reading skill of decoding because it is not regarded as a fundamental skill. Many are then labelled as learning disabled!!!!!!!!!
Many children leave the early years of primary school unable to decode the words written on paper. I beg parents to make sure their child can do this.
A dictionary I used, defined decoding as converting a coded message into intelligible language. Isn’t this what we do when we read?
Reading is decoding language using (in most instances) an Alphabetic system. An alphabet is the code for speech sounds in words.
Most of the other skills needed in reading are language skills. Once a sentence has been decoded it is like a spoken sentence being said slowly. The content of the decoded sentence needs to be part of the child’s spoken language because we read for meaning. Again isn’t this obvious? As an example, would it be sensible to ask a person to read a French text if that person had no understanding of French?
Yet we expect young children to read texts with language outside their experience and understanding.
My ebook, ‘Phonics for Kids’ is about the fundamental reading skill of decoding. It is about how you ensure your child learns to read systematically and stress free.
CLICK HERE or on the illustration of the book on www.phonicsforkids.net to learn more about how this book can be a first class resource for you to ensure your child learns decoding in the years that matter
