Give Your Child's Self-Esteem a Top-up Everyday

Your Child's Self-Esteem and Their Language Development

W hen children feel good about themselves, it shows in everything they do, including their language development.

If your child has high self-esteem they will tend to be more talkative and confident... they will want to speak-up and be heard. The more they speak, the more their language they will develop.

If your child has low self-esteem they'll avoid drawing attention to themselves. This in-turn robs them of valuable chances for practicing speaking, to growing their confidence, and develop their language.

Build Your Child's Self-Esteem

Your child's self-esteem does depend on their personality they are born with, but you can play a major role in building their self-esteem up if need be.

How much time, encouragement, support and love you give your child is the key to growing their self-esteem.

As their parent you are their biggest fan. It would be natural for your child to expect anyone else to pay less attention to them, so by giving your child plenty of your attention, you'll help them in their expectations in life

Children with high self-esteem also are less likely to be overcome by peer-pressure, frustration and bullying, so the effort you make in building their self-esteem will help your child dramatically in the future.

Some told us they had successfully helped their children build-up their self-esteem and confidence. These are some of their strategies they used...

Invite friends over for play dates, but avoid stepping-in to sort any issues out when possible. Instead, try and let your child work out their own solutions. Over the years and after many play dates, your child will have had enough opportunities to develop good social skills and be happy to make themselves heard. Try and keep a wide circle of friends, as this will help them work out strategies in dealing with lots of different personalities.

Tell your child you love them each day and you are proud of them. At bedtime, remind them of their achivements however minor they may seem to you.

Let them see your pride when telling others (your partner or grandparents) about their achivements.

When bedtime ritual talk through them, builds their self esteem, confidence

Give them praise to encourage behaviour you want to continue.

Show a Deep Interest in What Your Child Has to Say

When you resond to them, when possible, look at them when you reply and use expression in your voice to also show your interest.

The amount of interest you show you child's attempts at communicating with you will have a dramatic effect on their responses.