| People are now turning to different parenting courses, | | | | satisfaction of doing what you like. It promotes control, |
| looking for ways to educate themselves on how to | | | | discipline, persistence, and enhances ability to seek and |
| build your self esteem and confidence and have a | | | | receive help. |
| systematic training for effective parenting. Here are | | | | We, as parents, can support our kids in this effort by |
| five key things essential for raising happy families and | | | | becoming involved and having some accountability. We |
| confident children: | | | | should enjoy the experience and make it fun for them. |
| Connection | | | | We need to encourage them and make them feel |
| Building that sense of belonging in our children. | | | | they could try anything. Talk with them about their |
| Developing trust with one another enhances their ability | | | | fears and help them overcome their issues by |
| to deal with adversity. Parents who are not connected | | | | encouraging them to at least try. Make them |
| with their kids usually miss the signs when their kids are | | | | understand that you are fine whether they make it to |
| in trouble. It's all about making our children feel secure | | | | the top or not. What's important to you is the fact that |
| and knows that we are always gonna be there for | | | | they tried and gave it their best. |
| them no matter what. Communication fosters | | | | Mastery |
| connection. | | | | This is all about encouraging and supporting our kids to |
| Play | | | | become very good at what they do or want to do. |
| Discover your kid's talents and passions, build their | | | | Mastery is best achieved when parents are leading by |
| imagination and promote cooperation through the | | | | example as oppose to demanding. |
| concept of play and flow. It's about spending quality | | | | It helps build confidence and positive self esteem, |
| time with them and showing them they're worth your | | | | develops leadership skills, initiative, desire to learn, and |
| time. Teaches curiosity and social skills, | | | | promotes internal motivation. |
| developconfidence, and letting them learn from failure. | | | | Watch out, it can be undermined by excessive criticism |
| An effective way of teaching lesson on positive | | | | and unreasonable expectations. |
| emotions and confidence. | | | | Recognition |
| Effective play challenges the minds and fosters | | | | Recognition is about being acknowledged, feeling part |
| relationships while they're having fun. It also encourage | | | | of the group and being valued by others. It reinforces |
| them to develop their own ideas. Ineffective play is | | | | motivation, promotes moral behavior and a very good |
| very structured, has too many rules, overly | | | | way of improving a child's confidence. |
| competitive, promotes destructive behavior and not fun | | | | It's about your kids getting an identity, giving them |
| at all. | | | | internal pride and external connection. It's basically more |
| Practice | | | | on the attitude that you give your kids rather than just |
| Reinforces certain standards of behavior and builds | | | | words. |
| the bridge from play to mastery. It comes from the | | | | |