Building Your Child's Self-Esteem: 9 Secrets Every Parent Needs to Know

by Brooks, Yvonne

• ISBN13: 9781469746777
• ISBN10: 1469746778
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-01-31
• Publisher: Author Solutions

Summary

Self-esteem is your sense of personal worth. It encompasses both self-confidence and self-acceptance. In part, healthy self-esteem comes from your awareness of the value you add to your family and the community. In Building Your Child's Self-Esteem, author Yvonne Brooks provides a step-by-step guide for improving children's self-esteem.Practical and hands-on, with clear and concise instructions, Building Your Child's Self-Esteemshows parents how to identify healthy and low self-esteem behaviors in their children. Parents will also learn how to overcome and correct unproductive habits that limit their child's performance.From developing a series of ideas for empowering children toward self-responsibility and awareness, parents will get the information needed to activate their child's potential for maximum success. Parents will learn how self-esteem manifests in children, how children with healthy and low self-esteem communicate, and how healthy and low self-esteem characteristics affect parenting skills. Building Your Child's Self-Esteemprovides guidance to help parents manifest and produce healthy, confident, courageous children.

Excerpts

Welcome to all parents, guardians, teachers, and anyone interested in improving the self-esteem of children! While primarily directed to parents, Building Your Child's Self-Esteem can provide any adult of influence a child-friendly resource to strategically add value and fun to a child's daily life.
There are many benefits parents and others will experience with children when applying the information written in this book. Children with healthy self-esteem:
• show greater respect and honor in the home
• have an enhanced ability to learn
• think proactively, are more independent, and are more successful in self-management
• enjoy mutually beneficial relationships with their parents and others
• discover unlimited opportunities to add value not only to their families, but also to their communities
Self-esteem is transferable! It's not a secret that children with healthy self-esteem tend to come from environments where parents, guardians, and teachers also demonstrate the character traits of healthy self-esteem.
Children with low self-esteem are often the product of environments where parents/guardians and other adults demonstrate disorder, disrespect, poor discipline, irresponsibility, and limited vocabularies.
You can add value to a child's life! The only requirement is for you to understand how to cultivate an atmosphere conducive to healthy self-esteem.
Consider this startling question: What if there are no such things as behavior problems, only self-esteem issues?
An understanding of this revolutionary concept can lead to long-term changes that empower children. Children with healthy self-esteem not only add value to themselves, they also add value to others.
You now hold in your hands a step-by-step guide with clear and concise instructions for improving the level of any child's self-esteem. In the right environment, children can learn to self-correct – to eradicate negative behaviors independently and responsibly.
Let's begin together to manifest and produce healthy, confident, courageous children!