Helping your son to have high self esteem is a great benefit for both you and your son. Self esteem is the overall self respect you have for yourself as a person. Self esteem is the confidence you have in your own merits as an individual person. Helping your son have high self esteem will give him this sense of self respect and confidence in himself. High self esteem is good for your son because he will feel better about himself and take more chances than his peers with low self esteem. How can you go about helping your son have high self esteem then? Here are a few tips to help your son achieve a high self esteem.
To begin in helping your son to have high self esteem, you should start by doing something simple like spending time doing activities together. These activities should be something you can do together or as a family. Choose activities like walking, sports or playing games together. Try and make these activities that you do together be something that is important to your son or something that he is interested in. When you do these special things with your son, it will help him feel like he is valuable and interesting. These feelings will help your son have high self esteem.
Another way to help your son have high self esteem is to nurture his special talents. This may include signing him up for sports that he is good at like football or baseball. You can also nurture your sons’ special talents he may have in other areas like art or music. You can nurture these talents by finding classes for him to attend or giving him information to read on the subjects that he is interested in. Nurturing your sons’ special talents will help your son to feel good about himself and thus help your son to have a higher self esteem.
To help your son have high self esteem you should also reward him for good and kind behaviors. This is beneficial to your son’s self esteem when he is very little and will stay beneficial for years to come. Let your son know what types of behaviors you like to see him display and give him rewards or verbal praise. Whenever your son exhibits kindness to other people you should also let him know that you are happy with his kindness. When you tell your son that you are proud of him he will feel good about how he behaves and will gain a higher self esteem.
When you are helping your son gain a higher self esteem you will also want to have conversations with him. These conversations do not need to be anything big; even small conversations are great. Keep in mind that when you are having any type of conversation with your son you should maintain eye contact and not be multi-tasking. This shows your son that what he says is important to you and that his ideas and thoughts are also important. Your son’s self esteem will grow when he feels that his thoughts, feelings and ideas are important to you.
Helping your son have high self esteem is not a very hard job. It will only require time and patience with your son. You should praise your son for good behaviors and any kind behavior he shows to other people. Find your son activities to do that will help him to feel good about himself and his many talents. Do things with your son to show that you are interested in him and the things that he likes. All these ideas will help you give your son the high self esteem that he deserves.
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Great Article! It shows that the deepest wisdom comes from personal experience, and I want to say thank you for sharing your wisdom!
As you can imagine, I place a high priority on a high sense of self-esteem too (obviously, since I run a website on that topic). Your article has added another rich perspective to how I look at self-esteem. Thanks again!