Helping Our Children Who Have No Self Confidence

By Trevor Johnson

Although there are many obstacles impairing our children's self-esteem, there are many things we could do to help our kids fight back. If your child is getting bad grades, cannot make new friends, or get along with other kids he or she may have no self confidence. This could lead your child into a bad situation like getting involved in the wrong crowd. Here are some ideas of ways to help your son or daughter develop better self-belief.

We can develop our children's self-belief through positive reinforcement. Instead of always criticizing our kids when they are wrong, we can spend more time acknowledging their good behaviors and accomplishments. This will help them to establish a better belief system in their own actions. They will find it easier to relate to positive criteria rather than always seeing the negative.

Pushing our kids to join some type of group activity is a great way to develop self confidence. There are tons of groups for young people to choose from. Your child should have no problem finding one that meets his or her needs. They could join almost anything as long as it is a good involved group. It is important that your son or daughter choose something that fills his or her needs and not yours. You do not want to push your child into a group that makes them unhappy, since they will not help them in anyway.

Since many young people spend a good portion of their time watching TV or on the Internet, they loose a lot of interacting experience that they would have gotten if they were outdoors. When they are outside, they may meet new people or interact more with ones they already know. It is up to parents to keep this interaction going by limiting the amount of time they allow their children to spend in unproductive endeavors.

Many parents feel they are to busy to spend time with their children. This could lead to unhappy teenagers who do not know how to communicate with adults. We should take the time necessary to make sure our kids are getting what they need why they are young so that when they become teenagers, they will know how to talk to us.

Young people with no self confidence need their parent's support to help them develop. Parents should never give up on their children and support them in becoming healthy happy adults with the confidence it takes to make it in life. - 31984

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