DON’T MAKE THESE PARENTING MISTAKES

ALL you want to do is help them any way you can, protect them from the world, and make them feel good.

So you make a point of praising them as often as you can, spend late nights helping them with school projects and check their schoolbag every day to make sure they have everything they need.

You might mean well, but sometimes things you do that are motivated by love and wanting to make life easier for your child can actually damage their self-esteem, experts say.

A child’s self-esteem is shaped by their relationship with their parents or other authority figures in their life, says Chanelle Visser, a clinical psychologist from Krugersdorp.

“Self-image is the perception