Want to teach your children to confident in themselves, Ashley?
Here’s my advice.
1) Listen to them. Teach them their value right from the moment they are born by listening to them and giving them what they need.
2) Recognise them as individuals and nurture their individual talents and abilities. Teach them the value of being unique and empower them by letting their individual personalities shine.
3) Allow them to socialise outside of home and develop relationships and friendships with other children. Get them into Girl Scouts or some other organisation where the whole programme centres around empowerment of girls. Allow them to have a life.
4) As well as recognising their strengths, identify areas of need. It won’t define them, but it will let them accept themselves for who they are regardless of it. Get them help/treatment in the areas that need developed and make sure you are enabling them to reach their full potential.
5) Have ambition for them and help them achieve their hopes and dreams - not yours. Give them hope that they can achieve whatever they want in life and that doing so does not depend on how they look, how much money they have or who they marry.
6) Teach then the value of hard work - a difficult one I know
. Provide them with an example of parents who work hard to provide a stable, happy home life. Nothing in life comes easy and constantly indulging them is an easy fix.
7) Teach them to be kind and empathetic to others, by modelling the same values yourself. Share with them, so they know how to share with others. Put the camera down and be with them when they graze their knee or fight with each other. Stop treating those around you as commodities.
8) Give your children rules and boundaries. This is the environment children thrive in. They will thank you for it, in the end.
9) Teach your children to be honest. I’ve always told mine, that the one thing they do not do is lie. If they’ve done something wrong I might be cross, but I will be more cross if they lie about it. The truth is everything.
10) Teach your children that beauty has nothing to do with how they look. Beauty exists in what they are. Empower them to be beautiful.
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