Ways to Make Your Child Feel Confident

By Seep Arora in Blog, Play

It’s normal for you to desire to instil confidence in your child as a parent. Confident children have faith in themselves and can confront new difficulties without fear, which are necessary ingredients for a happy and meaningful life. Confidence is critical to a child’s happiness, health, and success in the future. Confident children can better handle peer pressure, responsibilities, disappointments, obstacles, and both good and negative emotions.

As a parent, you can play a key role in helping your child become more confident. So let us explore some strategies that you can implement to do the same:

• Encourage a positive mindset: Encourage your child to use positive words and have an optimistic approach. If they say “I can’t” accomplish something, provide them alternative options to help them achieve it or assist them in proving that they can. Reminding them of earlier accomplishments, notably those they felt they couldn’t do, helps boost their confidence and supports a “can do” attitude.
• Push them outside of their comfort zone: Set a true challenge for your kid – something safe but outside their comfort zone. It should ideally be something that makes them feel a bit uneasy, such as raising their hand in class if they generally avoid it, performing a musical instrument in front of an audience, giving a presentation at an assembly, and so on. Pushing past their limits enables them to realise that they are capable of doing something they never imagined possible while also increasing their self-confidence. 
• Give them responsibility and independence: To make your child feel helpful, responsible, and capable, assign them some “special duties.” Using the adjective “special” might increase their self-esteem even further. These tasks might include things like becoming your assistant chef in the kitchen one day, caring for a pet, or walking to school alone if it is safe. Having more responsibility and freedom might help them feel more confident in their abilities.
• Surround them with people who make them feel good: The more confident and positive individuals your child is exposed to, the more confidence they will gain. So, try to make an effort to set a positive example for them. Friends that support and uplift your child rather than tear them down also significantly impact their self-esteem.