4 Tips on How to Build Confidence & Self Esteem in Kids (Children)

Building a child’s confidence is a very rewarding experience because you almost get to see it as it is happening. It’s really important to give kids thé room to make mistakes and attempt things without becoming discouraged.

Sharing their enthusiasm when they bring their successful work or creation to show off with pride will help reinforce their confidence in their own ability to find solutions to challenges. It’s really important to resist the urge to step in and fix things or do things for the child. Give them the time to try things, to get it right, and to share and communicate what they know and learn. These are key traits for success in learning and also greatly important for social and emotional development!

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hi I’m nida I’m head of communications
for maple bear schools in the Gulf and
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thank you helping a child build their
confidence is so rewarding because you
actually get to see the results in real
time you get to see that smile spread
across their face as their process
starts working on their eyes light up
when they really achieve what they were
trying to do it’s really important to
focus your attention on the effort and
the determination that the child is
putting in and to really help them
understand that you as the adult that
they look up to who they see is so big
and competent and so it’s smart
recognizes that they’re really trying
and they’re really putting in their
energy and their their effort behind
achieving something and showing them
that this kind of determination is what
will help them succeed to achieve what
they’ve been trying to do it’s important
also not to focus on mistakes but also
to allow room for them to make mistakes
and to be give them give them the
encouragement to attempt things over and
over again and to not get discouraged
just because something didn’t work the
first time it’s okay if their letters
don’t all line up the first few dozen
times on the line or if they’re square
doesn’t look so much like a circle what
they need to see is that each attempt is
a chance for learning and a chance to
improve on what they did last time and
get things better the next time it’s
really important to resist the urge to
jump in and fix things or to do it for
the child what’s really important is
that they get the chance to correct
things and define their own solutions
and to get to trust their own abilities
so even if it’s something as simple as
them putting on their socks right when
they get the chance to share that pride
that they did it by themselves and they
come to you and you talk about it and
you encourage them to explain what they
did and how it worked they get to build
their abilities and they get to build
their confidence and their own abilities
being creative feels good and part of
solving a problem or getting something
just as you wanted to be is actually
about being creative to find that
solution so it’s important also to give
a child the opportunity experience new
concepts or to be exposed to new ideas
and to give them a chance to express
what they see or what they perceive
to share their knowledge or to share
their information with you
when they know that they can grasp new
ideas and that they can tackle new
scenarios along with not having the fear
of feeling like they might be wrong when
they’re trying to explain what they’ve
learned they will become more excited
about new experiences and new people in
new places and also in being able to be
confident and expressing what they’ve
learned or what they see as well so I
guess what’s most important is to make
sure that you resist the urge to jump in
and fix things for your child all the
time and to give them the chance to
learn some of their own mistakes to make
mistakes and to really build confidence
in their own abilities to solve their
problems and to do things and to be
excited with them when they want to
share that they’ve done something right
I hope you find these tips helpful thank
you