This lesson is for parents. This have sub topics that will help nurture confidence, self-confidence and flexibility in your children in a simpler way.
Confidence:
As a parent, you teach your children to be confident and to be confident in their efforts to avoid future failures. Below are guidelines on how you can teach this.
- Do not be discouraged when you fail. Be a role model for them showing them if you try you can be successful.
- Mistakes can happen in your work. Do not keep regretting for it. Teach your children to remember that even an animal as big as Elephant can slip and fall, it is still ok.
- Appreciate and encourage children when they do new things.
- Do not point out and show anger if your children fail. Teach them to recognize mistakes and try again.
- Help them uncover the hidden talents within them.
- Teach them to set goals. Goals can be small. It may take some time depending on the situation. Teach them to achieve goals even if it takes time to reach. Remind them that the turtle moved slowly and touched its target.
- Do not allow them to deviate or loose focus when they try to achieve their goal.
- Appreciate their hard work and skills. This will motivate them and make them progress even further.
- Teach little by little everything like homework, education, sports.
- Teach that success, failure, hunger, happiness and anxiety will come for everyone.
- Teach them to face challenges.
- Show your love in word and deed. Remind yourself that you are always with them.
Self-confidence:
Confidence is passed through others. Self-confidence is the confidence a person has in himself. Now let us see how you can build self-confidence in your children.
- Let your children to take their own decisions. This will improve the attitude of thinking about the pros and cons and facing the challenges.
- Children who grow up in a loving and secure environment will have self-confidence. Make sure to create such an environment.
- Do not say that you are the best. It will foster pride and will not be ready to accept failures easily. So, teach them not to stop trying even if they succeed. Understand the fact that winners have failed.
- Tell them to use the opportunities. It will give the best experience.
- Teach them to help with household chores. For example: cleaning the bedroom, helping to cook, treating guests.
- Let them do their favorite challenges. They will learn from defeat. For example: swimming
- Failures and hardships are not something to be ashamed of, they can only be countered by failures.
- Children will clearly realize that your love for them is infinite because you are with them and guide them during failures.
- Allow them to continue the practice. You can even move a heavier rock by constantly trying to move it inch by inch
- Do not compare success or failure with other children. Every child is unique.
Flexibility:
Flexibility is a quality that can be flexed in any position. Children will face a different situation. The challenges, stress and obstacles that occur during this time make them unstable. Children need to be flexible in order to prevent these. Flexible children tend to be smarter, bolder, more enthusiastic, and more capable. Flexibility is something that can be developed in all children. So let's look at how to raise this in children.
- Children will trust the parents/elders more when we be loving and caring to them. Researchers also says that by doing this child will be ready and flexible to face any situation.
- Talk about people who care about them. This creates positive thoughts in the children.
For example: I told Dad you won the match. They said he was going to buying you a gift.
- Make them understand that there is nothing wrong in asking for help. In this way, flexibility grows as one learns that problems can arise and how to deal with them, rather than thinking that the best one will never fail.
- Set goals and teach them the challenges and obstacles that come with doing so. In this way they will easily accept failures and obstacles by thinking about how to deal with such an environment and prepare for it.
- Get involved in sports and allow yourself to lose.
- Encourage them to do self-creations.
- Don’t stop their learning by keep saying they did the best. Let them learn and try more.
- Have them get the work completed on time.
- Allow them to learn delicate games.
- Engage in daily exercise.
- Introduce them to people who live in a different environment and are talented.
- Teach them to respect the feelings of others.
- Teach them to maintain a healthy lifestyle.
- Help you dispel fear and move forward.
- Do not impose your ambitions on them.
- Make time for the children. Listen to what they have to say.