Encouragement and Praise – Substances for the Building Of Confidence in Our Children

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Empowering Our Children With The Right Beliefs

High achievers children have strong 'self-belief' and it drives them to strive and not give up until they succeed.

If our children have limiting beliefs, like, "I cannot do well in .." , "I'm not clever", "I have poor memory" ....then chances are that they will easily give up or not attempt to put in their best.

As parents, let's take a step back and ask ourselves, 'where do their beliefs come from?' Well, teachers, their peers and past experiences will definitely do play a part in influencing the children. Nevertheless, we must understand that it is we parents who play the crucial role in shaping their beliefs. Parents may unknowingly install limiting self-beliefs in their children through the words they used.

If we parents, consciously or unconsciously, keep telling our children that he is 'naughty', 'slow' or 'lazy' or 'not as clever as so and so' ...soon they will form negative self-image of themselves.

If we parents constantly using encouraging statements like, "I believe you can do it!", "You are a winner!", "If you work hard you can achieve it" , they will not be easily influenced by negative experiences and remarks from peers and teachers.

How can we, then instill new empowering beliefs? We can constantly emphasize and lead them to believe that they can achieve anything with the right strategy and it is the way they choose to think and act that makes them a loser or winner and not their past results. Keep reinforcing in our children the belief that they have a CHOICE to be a loser or winner. If they take responsibility for their results, instead of blaming, they will learn that they have the power to control their life and not let the circumstances or other people control them.

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How can we, then instill new empowering beliefs? We can constantly emphasize and lead them to believe that they can achieve anything with the right strategy and it is the way they choose to think and act that makes them a loser or winner and not their past results. Keep reinforcing in our children the belief that they have a CHOICE to be a loser or winner. If they take responsibility for their results, instead of blaming, they will learn that they have the power to control their life and not let the circumstances or other people control them.