Hints to Help your Teenage Children with their Self Esteem
- Set achievable and life-enhancing goals
- Exercise, relax and eat a regular diet
- Talk to friends and family
- Challenge critical self-talk
- Practise mental imagery
- Release shoulds from their vocabulary
- Communicate assertively
- Build on strengths and acknowledge weaknesses
Taking Charge – A Guide for Teenagers – S Edelman and L Remond
Ten Tips on Connecting with Your Children
- Give Lots of Hugs
- Spends of Quality Time with Your Children
- Use Ordinary Daily Activities To Teach Children New Things
- Encourage children to be independent and do things for themselves
- Avoid problems be giving your children plenty of interesting and engaging things to do
- Decide on clear ground rules and set limits in your children?s behaviour
- Discuss rules with your children and give them a chance to be involved in deciding on family rules
- Pay attention when your children behave well
- Avoid paying attention to minor misbehaviour
- Give brief, clear and calm instructions.
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No wonder experts tell us that children need to hear a thousand stories aloud before they begin learn to read for themselves. A thousand! Three stories a day will deliver us a thousand stories in one year alone, let alone in the four or five years prior to school. We can do it! The ideal three stories? are: one favourite, one familiar and one unknown, but the same book three times is also fine.
Mem Fox, 2001, Reading Magic
