Helping Your Child Develop A Healthy Sense of Self Esteem &
How Parents Influence Their Children’s Development
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The first article I research is title “ Helping Your Child Develop A Healthy Sense of Self Esteem” this article basically explains a child self-esteem and how parents, teachers, and friends have an important role in how the child perceive their self. Self-esteem is the way an individual perceives herself, her thoughts and feelings about herself and her ability to achieve in ways that are important to her. The article talks about how this self-esteem reflects a child’s own perception and expectations, but also by the perceptions and expectations of important people in their life.
This article also talks about some of the characteristics that a child needs to develop or obtain in life. These characteristics are a sense of security, a sense of belonging, a sense of purpose, a sense of personal competence and pride, a sense of trust, a sense of responsibility, a sense of contribution, a sense of making real choices and decisions, a sense of self-discipline and self-control, a sense of encouragement, support and reward, a sense of accepting mistakes and failure, and a sense of family self-esteem. The most important characteristics children depend on are a sense of family self-esteem. A child’s self-esteem development starts within the family and is influenced deeply on the feelings and perceptions that a family has on itself.
The second article I research is title “How Parents Influence Their Children’s Social Development” this article basically explains the positive and negative ways a parent can influence their children’s social development. Children inherit many things from their parents and it is important for parents to have a positive behavior so their children can inherit those good traits. Parents can influence their children by the way they say things and what they say to them when they are directly talking to the child. Parents don’t’ realize that words can have a lasting effect on a child. Insulting and criticizing their children leads to the child having low self-esteem and leave them suffering from depression in their adult years. Giving a child affirmation and praise are positive ways for good parenting and influencing their child’s self-esteem.
The article also talks about positive things parents can do to have a happy child. Using positive parenting methods is a good way to have a happy child with good social skills. Having a settled routine gives the child a feeling of security. Negative things that parents need to avoid are arguing in front of their children and they way you criticizing the action rather then making statements about the child’s character. A parent having a positive attitude toward their child with make them feel like they are on his side.
Parents can shape a child’s social development through self-esteem and self-confidence by providing good parenting, this will help the child know the value of himself or herself as a person. Parents can do this by praise, consistency, criticizing the action not the person, acceptance, stability and love. Parents can also do this by letting their children take risk in doing things such as riding a bike, learn to swim, and going out with their friends. They need to recognize that their child is an individual and they need to let go when the time comes.