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Encourage your Child to Feel Important



It's imperative for a child's healthy development to feel important and worthy. Healthy self-esteem is a child's armor against the challenges of the world. Kids who feel good about themselves seem to have an easier time handling conflicts and resisting negative pressures. They tend to smile more readily and enjoy life. These kids are realistic and generally optimistic. It's also been shown that children who feel important are well-rounded, respectful, and excel in academics, extracurricular activities and hobbies and develop healthy relationships with their peers.

In contrast, for children who do not feel important or cherished have low self-esteem, and challenges can become sources of major anxiety and frustration. Children who think poorly of themselves have a hard time finding solving problems, and may become passive, withdrawn, or depressed.

You are the biggest influence in your child feeling important, valued and worthy. Remember to praise your child for a job well done, and also for putting for a valiant effort. Praise the good traits they naturally possess, and help them find ways to learn from their mistakes and failures. Be honest and sincere in your praise. Help them realize that you also suffer from self doubt and can make mistakes from time to time, but that you know that you are important, valued and loved. When you nurture your own self -esteem and importance, your child will learn to do the same, so be sure to lead by example and steer clear of self-depreciating yourself or engaging in activities that lower your self-worth or importance.

Your child may have inaccurate or irrational beliefs about themselves, their abilities or their traits. Accentuate the positive about your child, and encourage your child to set realistic expectations and standards for themselves. Help them identify traits or skills they'd like to improve and help them come up with a game plan for accomplishing that goal. Encourage your child to become involved in cooperative activities that foster a sense of teamwork and accomplishment.

Through these and other positive, affirming activities, your child is sure to develop a strong sense of self importance, value and worth which will carry into their adult years.

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Sunday nights are usually a good choice for this because you have more time to relax and the weekend chores have been completed.

Inconsistency when disciplining makes you directly responsible for your children's misbehavior and doesn't teach them how to be responsible for their actions. But with a little forethought, patience, firmness, love and understanding, the discipline can have a positive outcome for all involved. This social competence allows children to be cooperative and generous, express their feelings, and empathize with others. By the time they are three years old, a child's brain is already 'hardwired' from the experiences they've had to that point. Encourage your child to become involved in cooperative activities that foster a sense of teamwork and accomplishment. They excel in school and do well in extracurricular activities and with their hobbies.

Other adolescents may lie to protect their privacy or to help them feel psychologically separate and independent from their parents.
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Jim noted to me last night that the stock market is now pretty much back to where it was around the time Charlie was born. Having spent the past ten days writing about vaccines and autism for the Science Blogs Book Club, it’s occurred to me that the whole vaccine-autism issue has been part of, and even dominated, public discussion about autism for most of Charlie’s life. It was in 1998 that Dr. Andrew Wakefield announced that he had found the cause of autism—-the MMR vaccine—and launched far more than a thousand discussions, diatribes, and disputed claims. 10 years, 11 years and counting of a good life with our boy. Tags: andrew wakefield, asd, asperger, autism, autism blog, disabilities blog, disability, economic crisis, Education, Health, immunizations, mercury, m...

Children are just as unique as adults are, and forms of discipline should be tailored to fit the individual needs of both parent and child.
It's also important to nurture your relationship with your spouse. Express that biting is wrong and unacceptable and that neither mommy or daddy like it. The best way to teach this is to always remain consistent, follow through with the same punishment for the same misdeed, and to discuss the discipline with your child openly and honestly afterwards.