Raising a confident and independent teenager starts when your child is born..
It's not a skill that's practiced since birth but rather how you respond to your child and what that communicates to them.
I think that this falls under the "social emotional" domain when we talk about encouraging a child to play independently, use their word and have confidence making mistakes.
While it is hard to watch our child struggle or not know the answer it is critical to their development...after al we all make mistakes, mistake are ok and how we learn to do something better next time. IF we never let our child fail at building blocks how do we teach them the important skills of problem solving, attention to task and initiating independent communication?
The best part is when they finally figure it out...
THEY are so proud of themselves! And that's what matters to build a confident child.
Here is an article that I thought had a lot of great points, I wouldn't label good education or parenting into a category, such as "attachment parenting "..... I like to see what's out there and educated myself and make decisions from there...
so please enjoy this article from Dr.Sears ...
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