Bringing up happy confident children must surely be most parents dream but how easy is it to achieve? We want our children to be happy and feel good about themselves but ultimately we can’t live their lives for them and the best we can do is to help them learn how to cope with life [...] Read more »
Building self confidence in children. Do positive parents produce balanced confident kids?
Even when children are young they develop confidence by acheiving things for themselves and also getting valued for so doing, from the satisfaction of their first steps to more and more ambitious things – learning skills in all areas of life right through to getting out into the world, earning an income and becoming self [...] Read more »
How Can We Boost Childrens Body Self Confidence
Most kids even from an early age have always enjoyed dressing up or aspiring to look like various role models from fictional characters to sportsmen, and other colourful characters of their time. But never before have so many children bothered so much, and particularly from an early age about attaining a perfect body image. Nowadays [...] Read more »
How to protect your child from bullying at school – Tips for parents of bullies
Helping parents of bullies might be the last thing on or your mind if your child is currently being bullied but what happens if you discover to your horror that it seems to be your child who is doing the bullying? Why, you might ask yourself – whatever did we do wrong for this to [...] Read more »
Developing decision making and problem solving skills can help your children tackle real life issues with confidence
High self-esteem and confidence are associated with an individual’s positive analysis of their own abilities and potentials. How we deal with our personal situations; how we overcome challenges and cope with what the world throws at us will form the foundations for how we choose to live our lives. The problem solving and decision making [...] Read more »
Are TV, Computer games and Social websites preventing our children discovering the joy of reading?
Many parents, educationalists and politicians are seriously concerned with the lack of reading skills and literacy in today’s children and young people. Devotion to TV and computer games means a lack of personal interaction, damage to eye sight, little personal socialization and a lack of one-to-one and group communication. A generation of illiterate children will [...] Read more »
Should we encourage our children to see themselves as a winner?
Vince Lombardi the popular American life coach said: “Winning isn’t everything, but the will to win is everything.” Is this true? Well do start with What does ‘a winner’ mean to you and your child – and to society? Is it important that our children see themselves as winners? Should we encourage winning? Should we include them [...] Read more »
Is our celebrity culture to blame for increasing Body Image Concerns and Eating Disorders in our children?
Is it a desperate search for identity? Or part of a normal need to feel of value? Many parents, health professionals and society at large are increasingly concerned that body image worries, eating disorders and low self esteem are increasingly occurring in young children. Eating disorders include a range of physical, psychological and behavioural features [...] Read more »
Is it important to build your child’s natural enthusiasm?
What is your child’s passion? What inspires them? Find out what they love to do, what they are good at, something that is close to their heart. Then help them build on this inspiration, this passion of theirs to feel good about themselves to develop their confidence and overcome challenges such as shyness. If [...] Read more »
Is it important to give children unconditional love?
Should we accept children the way they are, regardless of their weaknesses, temperament and behaviours and love them unconditionally? Children, like adults need to feel secure and accepted especially when they are young. But is this detrimental for developing discipline, a balanced and supportive environment and teaching them to respect and consider others? Jo [...] Read more »