Cover of "Rules (Newbery Honor Book)"

You can make them feel much better about themselves and their surroundings, and that will help them not only when they are kids, but also when they are adult, and even help them when they are parents themselves.

Your child´s self-esteem is important, and there are things that will raise your and there self-esteem!

Early recognition of the problem
Perhaps your child is becoming more clingy than usual, or maybe they say stupid things about themselves, or maybe the child don´t want to try new things, having problems at school, being teased for instance, or not being their normal happy self. Spotting the signs early is very important.

Teach your child
When your child is out of diapers, they are no longer babies, they are young people, so treat them so, have intelligent talks with them, and listen to their problems. It is very important to teach your child so they will talk to you. By having an intelligent talks to your child you will educate them to understand the importance of you being their parent. Try give them tip to handle situations at school. Talk to them about situations that have happened, ask them how they would handle the situation. And then perhaps you can then suggest another way.

Teach your child
Instead of giving your child what they may take as an order, suggest the idea to them, this will make them think how to solve problems by themselves and building their self-esteem. So when a situation arises at school, the child will have more confidence in themselves, and be able to control the situation. Because the child has more confidence, they will be much happier and relaxed, leading to a better learning ability in school and home.

Never Ever change you Rules                                                                                                                       Always be very clear about your rules, you must have rules! And what you say go’s, Yes means Yes and No means No. Do not move the goal posts on your child that can and will be very damaging, as you have just given the child an excuse to argue with you knowing if they argue long enough you will change your mind. So start as you mean to go on.

Maybe he is taking out his anger on his sister, and when you have step in and explain that this is not acceptable behaviour, he will know he was in the wrong.

Keep on doing it
This is an on-going part of parenting what parenting is really about. When you have this routine working for you, just keep doing it, do not relax and you will have a happy family.

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