Confident Children: Help children feel good about themselves

Confident Children: Help children feel good about themselves
Gael Lindenfield

A parent’s guide to helping children feel good about themselves. A new larger format revised edition of the parenting classicA child’s level of confidence is a key factor in forming their personality and confidence in later life. It is crucial for children to learn to love themselves – all adult issues of self-love, positive thinking and clear goals are equally as important for children and it is much easier to learn these attitudes when growing up. This book looks at how to provide a helpful environment for children to grow up with a sense of both inner and self confidence.Lindenfield also stresses the need for learning about children’s health, because problems like bed-wetting and temper tantrums, may be confidence and attention issues. She also focuses on the stress levels of the parent – quelling your own stresses relaxes your child.The book also includes important sections on giving your child space and freedom, plenty of stimulation and encouragement, communication and ground rules.

Confident

Children

help children feel good about themselves

Gael Lindenfield

Dedication (#ulink_d66d1f54-45e8-55ff-8fcd-bc325dc3b6ad)

To Laura, my daughter, with deepest love, constant admiration and unending gratitude for enriching my life and teaching me so much about parenting.

Tragically, in 1996, Laura was killed in a car accident at the age of 19. In her memory, Gael and her family set up a foundation (The Laura Lindenfield Foundation) to help young people find and follow an achievable life-dream.

Contents

Cover (#ue7a09953-e91b-5b6a-ac1c-5fd519720c49)

Title Page (#uf1909f21-4fd3-52ad-a31c-6018f0f77318)

Dedication (#u6b3f0407-5657-5723-9a7b-b3b920ceb6fb)

List of Exercises (#uee4f6a65-e62f-50e4-8c59-7ba731002ffb)

Introduction (#u067fe013-308e-5da6-8b2e-87100795dfcf)

Introduction to this Revised Edition (#u4ad7149d-404d-5c1b-92db-699cd0ad4b82)

Part 1 You Will Never be a Perfect Parent But You Can Become a Confident One! (#u22fad506-7c5a-5d8c-9846-135a614a0ee9)

1 What Exactly is Confidence? Everything You Need to Know (#u82cced26-b6a3-57b0-87c0-a27e87b4df45)

2 How to Become a Good-enough Parent. More Saint, Less Sinner! (#u20986875-1257-5b73-a46e-8e992e43041e)

3 Providing a Helpful Environment. Confidence at Home (#litres_trial_promo)

4 Your Family Life. Does it Hinder or Help? (#litres_trial_promo)

Part 2 How to Lay the Foundations of Inner Confidence (#litres_trial_promo)

5 Building Self-esteem. Help Your Children to Love Themselves (#litres_trial_promo)

6 Developing Good Self-knowledge. Help your Children to Get to Know Themselves (#litres_trial_promo)

7 Setting Goals. Help your Children to Reach for Their Stars (#litres_trial_promo)

8 Thinking Positively. Negative Thinking is a Bad Habit – Help Your Children to Kick It! (#litres_trial_promo)

Part 3 How to Improve Your Child’s Outer Confidence (#litres_trial_promo)

9 Good Communication and Self-presentation. Learning the Essential Skills (#litres_trial_promo)

10 Assertiveness. Helping Your Children to Find their Voices (#litres_trial_promo)

11 Children and Emotions. Helping them to Manage their Feelings (#litres_trial_promo)

12 Positive Problem-solving. Dealing with Difficulties Constructively (#litres_trial_promo)

13 Dealing with Conflict. If You Want Confident Children, You Have to Deal with the Conflict! (#litres_trial_promo)

14 The Flight to the Outside World. Giving your Children the Confidence to Survive on Their Own (#litres_trial_promo)

Further Reading (#litres_trial_promo)

Index (#litres_trial_promo)

The Laura Lindenfield Foundation (#litres_trial_promo)

Acknowledgements (#litres_trial_promo)

By the Same Author (#litres_trial_promo)

Copyright (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)

List of Exercises (#ulink_feda8236-dcd9-59d4-a05f-a5f9ffdb7555)

Discovering my auto-parent (#ue67cba3f-3cf3-409f-83dd-7d81aa0dcfae)

Sabotaging behaviours of my inner child (#ubdc50b4a-147c-4756-b771-a9982ed06ae5)

Recovering my dreams (#u71715e12-3332-44da-81e8-3283863f403d)

Action plan to upgrade my knowledge (#litres_trial_promo)

My stress warning signals (#litres_trial_promo)

Action plan for stress prevention (#litres_trial_promo)

Home-check (#litres_trial_promo)

Family check-over (#litres_trial_promo)

Building self-esteem (#litres_trial_promo)