CONFIDENT KIDS

How Parents Can Raise Positive, Confident, Resilient and Focused Kids

Every parent wants the best for their children. We all want them to grow up to be confident and positive adults. Raising a child to be resilient and able to deal with life's ups and downs is also something that most parents strive for. Confident Kids will give you practical strategies for shaping and improving your child's outlook and mindset. Parents have a huge influence over the way their children think and deal with life's situations and events. Happy and successful children usually grow up to be well-adjusted adults who lead fulfilling lives.

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Some Ways You Can Create a Happy Family:

Family traditions bring the family close together on special occasions. They could include how you celebrate birthdays and special holidays, e.g. family barbecues, parties, reading special books, singing songs, watching family movies or going on holiday together. I've seen many families who go away camping together as a group every Christmas and this is often passed down through the generations.

Play sport, join a club or do activities together. Everyone in my immediate family (husband, two kids and myself) surf. There is nothing better than going out for a surfing session together. Other families all become involved in their local sporting club, scouts group, theatre group etc.

Don't encourage your family members to be competitive with each other. Model and praise your children when they support and cheer on their family members.

Be careful not to spoil one member or give more attention to one child over another.

Have guidelines, rules and boundaries that are clear and understood. You need to be consistent with everyone in the family. Family jealousy will erupt if you're not fair.

Eat together at night time. The statistics for the amount of time parents spend talking to their children are horrifying. The average parent spends less than 40 minutes a week talking to their child. If you have a family dinnertime, you can talk to your children for around 30 minutes and this allows you to find out about their day, how they're going with school, sport, friends, interests etc. This time also allows siblings the time to talk to and appreciate each other. Each family approaches eating dinner differently, some like to eat in front of the TV, others at the dining table. Honestly it really doesn't matter as long as you're all together and talking.

Some children aren't allowed to speak during dinnertime and I think this is a huge mistake. Eating together also gives parents of tweens and teens the opportunity to monitor what their children are eating and how much they are eating.

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