This is very important. Generally, children who feel good about themselves achieve more success. You can use one simple but highly effective method to increase your childrens self-esteem- keep reminding them of their good qualities and success.
This will strengthen their confidence and self-esteem. It will make them believe that they can achieve what they want.
2. Help your children set goals
Goals will give direction to your childrens thoughts and to their life. Its a best way to stimulate your children to make proper use of their time and energy.
Hence encourage your children to set some goals. For example, study goals or career goals, and ask them to do their best to achieve it.
Allow them the freedom to set the goals which they want to achieve. However, you can guide them to take right decisions, if they seem confused or undecided.
3. Help your children make correct choices
Your children can avoid many problems and failures if they choose things which match with their interests and strengths. Things in which they are naturally good.
This means, your children should choose study-subjects and career based on their natural strengths, talents and interest.
For example, if your son is good in music then it will be best for him to choose career based on music. If your daughter is strong in math, it would be a right decision to choose higher education and career based on mathematics.
Such choices based on childrens strength, interest, and natural talent, help them to learn faster and make better progress.
Observe your children to find out in which work they are good at. What things interest them? In which subjects they score higher consistently? Also ask your children what are their aims, dreams and interests. All this information will help your children to choose a particular educational qualification or job or business that suits them better.
4. Keep your children optimistic about their future
Children see failures, unemployment, job retrenchments, violence, and other depressing things around them-either through media or in the life of people known to them.
These negative things can depress children. It can make them lose interest in studies and career. It can influence them into thinking that they do not have much chance of achieving success in life. Such thinking might make them apprehensive about their future. You can prevent this.
Teach your children to convert problems into solutions, to look for opportunities in difficulties.
Also turn your childrens attention to those people who are achieving success. While there are people living in depressing conditions, there are also thousands of other people who are getting good jobs, earning wealth, fulfilling their dreams and living happily.
With this kind of positive thinking, your children will not get discouraged. They will remain reassured about their future and make efforts to reach for their dreams.
5. Keep up the energy level
Bad health can adversely affect childrens learning ability and performance level. Help your children to stay healthy and energetic.
Encourage them to eat healthy and nutritious food, drink sufficient water, sleep properly and exercise regularly. If the body is healthy, then the mind will also be healthy.
Your children will be able to study more, work more, and enjoy more success in their life.
