Title: Parenting Tips for Healthy Kids: Positive Affirmations for Kids
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Article Entry: Everyone needs positive reinforcement and this article is about keeping your kids mentally and physically healthy and some tips for praising your kids. Praises are very important parts in helping children develop self esteem, to feel good about there accomplishments and to feel encouraged to continue to try. One of the things that you want to be aware of when you’re praising your child is to try to be as specific as possible, that’s going to be really helpful because it’s going to help your child understand what types of things you’re noticing. What you want to avoid is some sort of very generalised type of praise for example “oh what a great job!” and kind of overdoing it with the praise because although praise is a very positive thing for children to experience, studies have actually shown that children that are getting generic, over abundance of praise… pretty much praise all the time, tend to focus more on getting the praise than the actual process of what ever project or activity that they are involved in, so basically what that means is that they maybe less likely to try things that they don’t feel that there confident that there going to get a good outcome in because there focused on what your going to say about it, so an example of being able to give just specific and genuine praise could be your child is sitting down and drawing a picture of outer space, you could start the conversation be saying “I can see your drawing outer space there, wow there’s a lot of stars there, and I can tell that you’ve really been working on making stars… and the rocket is in the middle of the stars and what’s this over here?” Child responds…”it’s a moon” “Okay okay, so it looks like you’ve done a couple of tracings over here as well”
so as you can tell I’m pointing out and talking about specifics of the drawing I’m not just saying "oh what a wonderful picture", if there are certain things I have questions about I’ll ask him so again with the praise you want to be specific, you want to be sincere and has to be genuine and you want to moderate it so your not just praising everything indiscriminately. This is going to help your child to feel good about themselves but also to be able to not become so focused on actually just getting the praise also focus on the fact that they are making the effort that’s important.
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