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Self Confidence Speech

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Self-confidence helps children and adults be more successful individuals. People with self-confidence make friends easier, accomplish more, and are less likely to be plagued with sleep disorders, social disorders, depression, and anxiety. Obviously teaching your kids to be self-confident is an important parental responsibility. Five of the best ways to do this is to let your children known its okay to make mistakes, to expose them to new activities, places and people every day, to show unconditional love, avoid comparisons to others and encourage rather than praise.
Mistakes Are Okay The fastest way to decrease a child's self confidence is to make them afraid of making a mistake. You may think only a really mean parent would make their child feel bad about themselves just for making a mistake, but it isn't as easy as that. Kids are very good at picking up feelings of disappointment, disapproval, and shame. They are also very good at blaming themselves for everything that goes wrong. Being over protective (and let's be honest, you know if you are) can create a deep feeling of insecurity for a child. You tell your child to not run through the house and then you around and he's fallen and skinned his knee and he'll feel that he got hurt because he was bad. The more controlling and domineering you are as a parent the less you child will believe in themselves. Instead bring your child to many different events and places and encourage, not push them to try anything and everything.

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