Raising Independent Self Confident Kids

Parents who read this book will learn how to help their children deal with frustration, make decisions, and become confident, self-sufficient adults.

Parenting is a delicate dance. In this book, child development experts Wendy Moss, PhD, and Donald Moses, MD examine the key skills parents need to help their kids emerge as confident, and capable adults. Throughout this book, parents will learn how to build a child’s confidence, decision-making abilities, tolerance for frustration, patience, and self-sufficiency.

Prevent and counteract the general anxiety and emotional fragility prevalent in children and teenagers today—a new parenting philosophy and strategies that give children the tools to flourish on their own. “A master synthesizer of attachment science, medical practice, and his own experience as a father, Harold Koplewicz capably and compassionately leads us through the art of scaffolding, from early childhood through the important adolescent period.”—Daniel J. Siegel, MD, author of The Whole Brain Child Just as sturdy scaffolding is necessary when erecting a building and will come down when the structure grows stable, good parenting provides children with steady and warm emotional nourishment on the path toward independence. Never-ending parental problem-solving and involvement can have the opposite effect, enabling fragility and anxiety over time. In The Scaffold Effect, world-renowned child psychiatrist Harold Koplewicz introduces the powerful and clinically tested idea that this deliberate build-up and then gradual loosening of parental support is the single most effective way to encourage kids to climb higher, try new things, grow from mistakes, and develop character and strength. Explaining the building blocks of an effective scaffold from infancy through young adulthood, he expertly guides parents through the strategies for raising empowered, capable people, including: • Lay a solid foundation: The parent-child relationship needs to be made from the concrete mixture of emotional availability, positive reinforcement, clear messaging, and consistent rules. From this supportive base, your will forge a bond that will survive adolescence and grow stronger into adulthood. • Empower growth: Skyscraper or sprawling ranch—the style of your child’s construction is not up to you! Scaffold parenting validates and accommodates the shape the child is growing into. Any effort to block or control growth will actually stunt it. • Stay on their level: Imagine being on the ground floor of a house and trying to talk to someone on the roof. The person on the roof will have to “talk down” to you or yell. If your child’s building and your scaffold are on the same level, you can speak directly, look each other in the eye, and keep the lines of communication open. Drawing on Dr. Koplewicz’s decades of clinical and personal experience, The Scaffold Effect is a compassionate, street-smart, and essential guide for the ages. All of the author’s proceeds from the sale of this book will be donated to the Child Mind Institute.

Providing tried and tested steps that will instill unbounded self-confidence and joy within children, this book will also restore harmony between them and their parents. This guide provides professional advice to help raise a self-confident child, ensures that children will establish good friends and be successful in school, and teaches parents how to get to the center of their child's world where their emotions reside?the energy source of behavior. Once inside their child's world, discipline is much more successful and parents will accomplish the most precious of goals?their child feeling able to be loved.

A winning formula that effectively builds your children's self esteem AND programs them to ATTRACT success --- for life! This revolutionary 7 step parenting guide is guaranteed to not only raise healthy children but boost your children's self confidence AND train them to take charge of their own destiny by instilling lifelong values to them. happy child, healthy children, parenting solutions, parenting guide, raising boys, positive parenting, parenting Find out now how you can raise a happy child, influence your child's self esteem, raise them with self-confidence, and program them to manifest their own success so they can be in control of their destiny! Because this program is a systematic training for effective parenting, you will learn ways to enhance your relationship with your kids. This is an all in one parenting solutions book that not only reinforces positive parenting but also offers a "whole person" approach to child rearing. You and your children will master techniques on how you can have absolute control of your physical and emotional well-being and how to build your self esteem and confidence. You will raise happier, healthier, and confident kids. It enhances the total well-being of every family member which helps build self-awareness, allowing you to boost your self-respect and trust in yourself. You will become aligned with your whole being, expanding your mind in Habit 6, energizing your body in Habit 2, and renewing your spirit in Habit 5. Free yourselves and your kids from the burden of carrying negative emotions from past experiences so you can begin attracting positive circumstances into your lives. The Powerful Habits of Raising Confident Kids is an effective parenting guide, written in a comprehensive, achievable, and simple manner, which means you won't have to do any guesswork. It's easy for you to understand so you can start getting yourself into the habits rightaway. Get ready to empower yourself and your family with these powerful 7 habits so you can: - become aware of the factors that contribute to low self esteem and begin addressing your issues - understand how the mind, body and spirit are connected to each other - start to become aware of what's going on inside you - begin making positive changes to your life - start feeling good about yourselves - improve your relationship with your family and other people

Focusing on children from age five to fifteen, the author shows parents how to help their children acquire self-esteem, problem-solving ability, social skills, and emotional control, and how to detect dangers to self-esteem during adolescence.

Why Do Kids These Days Expect Everything to be Given to Them? Today's kids don't know how to read a map. They can Google the answer to any question at lightning speed. If a teen forgets his homework, a quick call to mom or dad has it hand-delivered in minutes. Fueled by the rapid pace of technology, the Instant Gratification Generation not only expects immediate solutions to problems—they're more dependent than ever on adults. Today's kids are being denied opportunities to make mistakes, and more importantly, to learn from them. They are being taught not to think. In Teaching Kids to Think, Dr. Darlene Sweetland and Dr. Ron Stolberg offer insight into the social, emotional, and neurological challenges unique to this generation. They identify the five parent traps that cause adults to unknowingly increase their children's need for instant gratification, and offer practical tips and easy-to-implement solutions to address topics relevant to children of all ages. A must-read for parents and educators, Teaching Kids to Think will help you understand where this sense of entitlement comes from—and how to turn it around in order to raise children who are confident, independent, and thoughtful.

Step-by step guidelines for raising responsible, productive, happy children. Self-image is your child's most important characteristic. How to help create strong feelings of self-worth is the central challenge for every parent and teacher. The formula for how is spelled out in Your Child's Self-Esteem. A member of Phi Beta Kappa and other honoraries, Dorothy Corkille Briggs has worked as a teacher of both children and adults; dean of girls; school psychologist; and marriage, family and child counselor during the last twenty-five years. Since 1958 she has taught parent-education courses and training in communication and resolution of conflicts.