Confident Kids: How Parents Can Raise Positive, Confident, Resilient and Focused Kids: Positive Parenting, #2

By Katrina Kahler and Karen Campbell

Every parent wants the best for their children. We all want them to grow up to be confident and positive adults. Raising a child to be resilient and able to deal with life's ups and downs is also something that most parents strive for. Confident Kids will give you practical strategies for shaping and improving your child's outlook and mindset. Parents have a huge influence over the way their children think and deal with life's situations and events. Happy and successful children usually grow up to be well-adjusted adults who lead fulfilling lives.

Click on look "inside" the book and check out the Contents page. Follow our advice and help your child to achieve their full potential by being confident, positive, respectful, resilient, focused and organized.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Katrina Kahler
• Release date: Aug 9, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201370886

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Introduction

Picture your child as they grow up. They are resilient and can easily cope with the problems life throws at them. They are confident and have a positive outlook on life. Because of this they are usually happy and have lots of good friends and relationships. All through their life, they have been grateful, and people always comment on their beautiful manners.

You can shape your child’s future. Happy and successful children grow into well-rounded adults. Follow our advice, and we are certain you’ll see positive and life-changing results, giving your child the gift of a fantastic life.

Chapter 1 - Developing a Positive Outlook and Mindset

As highly successful teachers with 60 years of combined experience, we believe that when it comes to helping kids succeed, personal development strategies are the way to go!

Their young, innocent, and vulnerable way of thinking is easily influenced by whatever is going on around them, be it good or bad. If we can be helping our kids by teaching and guiding them to be positive thinkers at a young age, imagine the future for society and the generations to come.

Why not encourage your child to also embrace a positive outlook on life? It’s amazing how often we, as teachers, have helped kids by influencing them in a positive manner simply by encouraging them to turn their thinking around. The transformation in these children has been totally inspirational! We have seen very negative children who had little faith or belief in their abilities become successful and happy learners with a very positive outlook on their education, their ability to achieve, and their self-image.

By helping kids in this manner, the ensuing result has been increased self-esteem, improved confidence, the willingness to persevere even in difficult situations, and becoming socially acceptable and making friends. You can do this, and so can your child.

As teachers, it’s the most beautiful feeling to be helping kids in this way and witness them developing the I CAN DO IT attitude and then really becoming positive about school and life in general.

You can help your child develop this incredible mindset and truly create an amazing life, regardless of academic ability. If they believe that something is possible, they are more likely to achieve their goals. Negative children are less successful in school and throughout life.

As a parent, what do you want your children to turn out like? What characteristics do you value and want to instill in your child? Do you want them to be kind and caring? Would you like them to be confident and positive? What type of work ethic would you like them to embrace? Do you want your child to be able to get along with others and be cooperative? Whichever characteristics you want your child to develop, you have to model those attributes and teach them to your child at a very young age.

Try to think forward to when your child becomes a young adult. What personal characteristics would you like them to possess? Why not think about this for a while and make a list? You could write a description of your child’s character at the age of 21. When you’ve done this, then you know what to aim for, and you can start developing these traits straight away.

The stories in this book are all true. They are stories that we have witnessed firsthand both in the classroom and in the lives of our own children and families. We know that these strategies work because we’ve used them on a daily basis, and the result has been inspirational.

Adam seemed like a reasonably happy and friendly kid at first. But as time went on, it quickly became apparent that there wasn’t much that he was happy about. Whinge, moan, complain! That’s all we heard from him in class, while so many of our other students would turn up to school each day donning smiling faces and positive attitudes. They were happy to be there and keen to find out what they’d be learning each day. But not Adam. His attitude was quite the opposite. He just didn’t seem to have anything positive to say at all.

And this certainly rubbed off on the other kids. They didn’t want to be his friend; they didn’t even want to be near him. Being around such a negative person was no fun. So this, in turn, gave him more things to complain about.

We (his teachers) could see that it was time to turn that negativity around. It wasn’t helping our classroom environment, and it certainly wasn’t helping Adam.

As it turned out, he was highly intelligent, and although he wasn’t the sporty type, he was very good at schoolwork. And this was what we decided to focus on because everyone has strengths, don’t they? Wow, Adam! That is such great work and look at your story writing. You’re amazing! These were the types of comments we began using with him. This just came naturally to us because it’s the philosophy we’ve always had as teachers, and we knew it worked.

Before long, Adam started to smile. He began to show pride in his achievements and take great delight in showing us his latest efforts.

Our praise and comments continued, but not just for Adam, for each and every child in our class whenever they did or said something worthy of praise. We knew this was the best way to motivate kids, and it was something we did on a regular basis.

Almost overnight, Adam began saying nice things too – to us, to his classmates, and to other teachers. Everyone noticed, and almost magically, everyone, especially the other kids, started seeing Adam in a different light. I like your work, Adam. Would you like to borrow my pencils, Adam? Yes, Adam, you can join our group. These were the comments he started receiving, and his whole demeanor became completely different.

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