Shaping Your Child's Healthy Self-Esteem-Self-Worth: Emotional Intelligence

By Rose M. Ditto PhD

The greatest gift that can be given to a child during the early, formative years, is the encouragement and guidance to develop a healthy self-esteem/self-worth. Its development provides the child the probability of having self-respect, having respect for others, believing that they are a child of God, that they have a purpose in life, and that they are worthy. It affects relationships with friends, relationships within the family, relationships when attending school, relationships in the workplace, relationships while serving in leadership, and relationships in general during life. When healthy self-esteem/self-worth is not developed in the early formative years, it is difficult to develop later in life. It is not impossible but difficult. Habits and attitudes that are not favorable are likely to develop and are difficult to change. The parenting style in raising children is important, and this book gives research and support for the authoritative parenting style as being best. Parenting is the most important job we have in life. How we parent can shape a child's perception as to the importance for becoming a responsible, productive person

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Apr 22, 2021
• ISBN: 9781098064808

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Shaping Your Child's Healthy Self-Esteem-Self-Worth

Emotional Intelligence

Rose M. Ditto, PhD

Copyright © 2020 by Rose M. Ditto, PhD

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Table of Contents

My Research

Measures

Correlations

Responsible Parenting

Respectful I Can Be

Honest I Can Be

Responsible I Can Be

A Friend I Can Be

Caring I Can Be

Self-Disciplined I Can Be

Productive I Can Be

A Good Listener I Can Be

Kind I Can Be

Courteous I Can Be

Thoughtful I Can Be

Trusting and Trustworthy I Can Be

In 1975 a book was written by Dorothy Corkille Briggs, Your Child’s Self-Esteem, in which she stated that there is an unfortunate oversight in our culture: we parents are not trained for our job. Vast sums are spent to teach academic and vocational skills, but the art of becoming a nurturing parent is left to chance and a few scattered classes. Then she pointed out that children are our most important national resource! Has this oversight improved since then? I think not.

"Becoming a parent does not automatically confer upon any of us the knowledge and skills to raise youngsters who