Some people courageously dare to take on challenges, others shy away from them. The reason lies in the base: self-confidence. With these 8 tips, parents can help their children build self-confidence.
Leon angrily tears up his math notebook with the words: “I don’t even write down the stupid work, I can’t do it anyway!” Marcel says: “It must be possible, I’ll ask my sister if she’ll explain it to me again.”
Nathalie climbs like a squirrel on the highest climbing frames and, at the age of 8, has already jumped from the 5-meter board in the swimming pool. Sarah stops at the bottom and says: “I only do belly slaps anyway!”
Niko is supposed to buy milk for his mother in the supermarket. There is no more milk in the refrigerator. He stops, perplexed and with drooping shoulders. His friend Daniel says: “I’ll go ask if you still have milk.”
These situations, which seem very different at first glance, have a lot in common: They are about self-confidence and self-confidence as a prerequisite for action. You have it or you don’t. And that decides whether the child dares to do something and dares to do something. Sometimes it’s about performance, sometimes about courage and sometimes about assertiveness. But what makes one child become self-confident and the other give up?
Build self-confidence in children – 8 tips for parents:
It’s actually very simple (and that goes for the little ones as well as the big ones):
1. Mindfulness cards for kids
Parents can provide positive affirmation cards to the children to build self-confidence in them. Children like to learn through playful games and fun. Through such activities, they learn how to help each other and more…
2. Make your own experiences
Let the children have as many immediate, personal experiences as possible. It makes a huge difference whether the little child watches how some characters roll a ball on television or whether they do it themselves.
3. Play and discover in nature
Offer stimuli for all the senses without having to make something artificial. Balancing over a tree trunk on the ground is much more interesting and challenges the child more than smooth, and therefore less exciting, playground equipment.
4. Sports, sports, sports
Movement and thinking are closely related, right up to old age. So it would be a mistake to make one-sided intellectual offers to the child and to consider romping outside to be a waste of time! (And we have not yet taken into account the other preventive and health-promoting effects of exercise.)
5. Trying, allowing mistakes, moving on
Encourage your child to try new things. Show that you trust them to be able to cope with it and encourage them to try again if it doesn’t work the first time. This also shows the child that it is normal not to get everything right the first time.
6. Practice makes perfect
“Practice makes perfect!” and “Success seems to be mainly a question of picking up where others leave off.” William Feather.
7. Praise, but right!
Praise your child for what they do well, but also for trying things out and for not giving up!
8. Yes, you (I) did it!
Emphasize that the child achieved something and that the success was neither a coincidence nor a result of the weather or the day of the week…
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