Mommy/Daddy Thought - Sept. 4
Give your children the gift of self-confidence.
Don’t criticize them and let them figure things out for themselves, say Jim Fay and Charles Fay PhD in Love and Logic Magic for Early Childhood. “Parents who find faults . . .” who “do everything for their children,” and who “don’t allow their children to experience the joy of independent success,” will cause them to have low self-concepts. On the other hand, parents who “offer empathy, understanding, and unconditional love,” who “allow their children to struggle and solve their own problems,” and who “encourage their children to succeed through personal thinking and learning will cause their children to have high self-concepts.” All parents want their children to feel good about themselves. Allowing them to solve their own problems and to love them while they are figuring them out is the secret to success.