Building Your Child's Self-Esteem

The National Association for self-esteem defines self esteem as: “The experience of being capable of meeting life’s challenges and being worthy of happiness.” While this sounds remarkably simple, developing and maintaining healthy self image is a challenging task. Poor self image accounts for many problems that have greater impact upon adults. Starting young children on a path towards confidence in who they are and their abilities is vital, to increase the likelihood of a more satisfying, self-assured life for them as adults.

At the end of this workshop, you will be able to:
Describe the characteristics of self-esteem
• Describe the four components of self-esteem
• Identity the developmental stages of childhood self-esteem
• Recognize signs of low self-esteem in your child
Describe methods for enhancing childhood self-esteem
• Identify behaviors that negatively impact on developing self-esteem
• Identify ways of improving problem solving skills and ability to tolerate frustration
• Identify ways of building individuality and creativity through self-expression
• Describe how to use praise effectively
• Describe the impact of parental role modeling on a child’s development