Today, we are going to learn how to boost your child’s confidence, spur him or her to achieve more successes and give him courage to take on new challenges.
As humans, we are preprogramed towards negative bias – we easily take stock of where we fell short, where we made (even the smallest) mistakes and so on.
It’s not easy for us – and our children – to recall and appreciate our (big and small) achievements.
This is the secret of many successful people. Successful people are often aware of their strengths and talents and are secure enough to acknowledge their past wins.
Research has shown that the more we celebrate our own successes, the more confident we are when facing new challenges.
This applies to our children and teens. In this exercise, we will be celebrating your child’s successes – no matter how small they may seem.
Step 1: Download the Success Log here.
Step 2: Complete the Success Log with your child.
Examples of successes: ‘I am good at drawing and my art teacher praised my work in front of the class before.’ ‘I scored a B – my ideal grade – for my Maths test last year.’ ‘I like helping my teachers and they appreciate it.’
Basically, include any achievement which your child or teen is proud of. It doesn’t matter if we *think* the achievement is small!
Further actions for you and your child:
Coax your child to re-read this Success Log when your child or teen feels doubtful or insecure about his abilities
Coax your child to re-read this Success Log when your child is fearful of taking a new challenge
When your child scores a new achievement, add it to this log!
I will guarantee that your child will feel good about himself and boost his or her self-confidence with this powerful exercise alone.
All the best.