“At home your child deserves caring parents who reprove with love and spend the rest of their time helping him feel like he can conquer the world.”
Delbert T. Goates, M.D.
A positive Self-Esteem is one of the best gifts we can foster for our tween’s. We live in a pretty harsh world where our tween’s are often beat down. For the most part, the world won’t build them up, compliment them and cheer for them. Through their peer’s, they will learn that they are not good enough, cool enough, skinny enough or smart enough.
The one place that our tween’s can develop a positive self-image is within the walls of our home. As parent’s, we can make a choice. We either join the pack of wolves and keep beating our tween’s down. Or, we can be their biggest cheerleader, see the good in them, be patient with them and bite our tongue when we need to.
By helping to build a positive self-esteem in our children we are arming them for life. We are giving the best solid foundation for them in their lives. Tween’s who like themselves, feel good about themselves and see their personal worth won’t fall to the temptations of the world. They will be strong enough to say no to things they know are wrong.
Tell your tween’s again and again how special they are, how smart they are and how absolutely wonderful they are. Then, they will feel as if they CAN conquer the world and not shrink away in fear of the world eating them up.
How do you foster a positive self-esteem for your tween?
