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How To Raise Confident Kids
Here are practical strategies for instilling confidence in children by embracing failure, addressing fears, and praising effort over outcomes. The article emphasizes the importance of changing perspectives on failure, making it a teachable moment for problem-solving and resilience. It encourages open conversations about fear, fostering emotional intelligence. Effort-based praise is highlighted as crucial, promoting intrinsic motivation and resilience. Believing in children, making them feel valued, providing autonomy, and teaching problem-solving skills contribute to their confidence. The article also underscores the significance of establishing a secure attachment through responsive and empathetic parenting, fostering long-term positive development.
Things Every Kid Should Learn in School
In the last 150 years we've moved from horses to cars and landed on the moon, yet in schools, not much has changed. School curriculums should. Here are things every kid should learn.