One
of the most important areas teachers should strive to learn more about is how
to teach children to be confident. It is very important for a child to be
confident, bold and courageous. A child who has all this qualities will be able
to say no when he ought to and even stand for what is right without the
supervision of his/her parents/teachers. A confident child is self-dependent,
strong and determined.
It
is true that creating a loving, stable environment will make it easier to
enhance a child's confidence. However, a loving, stable environment is only
part of the process of how to teach children to be confident. In order for kids
to become confidence, they must also be taught people skills and you need to
develop their character to create true confidence.
True confidence means being
comfortable in any setting by having people skills and feeling strong enough to
resist temptations by having a strong character. A child must be able to relate
with people without feeling inferior or incapable of expressing thoughts.
It
is important that we start to teach children certain skills to boost their
confidence at a tender age.
They must be able to
start conversations, meet and greet people without being told, they must say the
magic words and be able to ask questions irrespective of the number of people
present. These things may seem very trivial, but the truth of the matter is if
these children are not trained to do these things, they may never see the need
to do them and as they grow they believe it’s okay to stay quiet, it’s okay not
to ask questions, it’s okay not to say thank you, and they begin to hide in
their shells, they hold back their thoughts and become withdrawn. But once a
child grows up knowing these basic things, he will never depart from it and it
will help him/her to interact freely.
Once you begin to
develop children to know the things that matter, you are not only building
his/her confidence, you are grooming a leader. Such a child grows up in
confidence, he is able to speak up and even speak on behalf of others.
Along with the people
skills, they must also be taught important character development traits. How to
handle pressure, sticking to the truth always and respecting people who are
older. A lot of parents think that their child is too quiet, he/she doesn’t
talk, he doesn’t know how to relate etc. all these things are minor things and
the child just needs a push to build his confidence.
Once we can build the
people skills and character of a child with the help of parents, confidence is
definitely assured.
