Play a little Sports!
Sports and just playing outside, in general, can be a great way to really interact and engage with your children. It helps develop many skills, such as communication (which shall be spoken more about later). However, it also builds many critical skills that they will need in life such as learning to work with teams, and learning rules, and all with the added health benefits of working outside! All of these things will be gained whilst at the same time having fun, which is the main reason why playing a sport is such a great choice.
What if my child struggles to Communicate?
This can be a common find in children who may lack confidence, or possibly have a disability or issue that hinders their communication. There are many valid options to choose from that can help them better their communication and speech, such as speech therapy for kids which could be started within the school or home.
Try some Cooking!
Cooking is also a great source of confidence-boosting for you and your children! Just like sports, it gets you and your child engaged in something, and this is also something that they can do with their friends as well! Cooking is something often looked at as only for adults, so let them help cook can give them an added sense of responsibility.
With cooking, it also teaches fundamental lessons, such as inputs and outputs. To bake a cake, the inputs are flour, sugar, milk, and eggs, then the heat from the baking will give you your output, which will be the cake. Being able to see the fruits of your labor and also then eat it, will be something special and mean a lot to the children when they do it. It can become a regular thing and something they can really look forward too. Therefore, improving their confidence, and also producing good food at the same time! It is a win-win!
Learn an Instrument
By learning an instrument, just like the others above in this post, it gets the child to see the fruits of their labor and also engage in learning brand-new skills. Depending on how quickly they can learn, they could learn an instrument quite quickly, and then witness that progress by showcasing what they have learned to others, thus giving them more confidence and pride to learn even more and keep improving.
However, one interesting piece of advice you’ll hear from any music instrument teacher is to let your child pick their own instrument. Let them decide which instrument they want to learn to play. Some little kids may surprise you and be drawn to a complex instrument to master, such as the violin, for example. Yet, no panic, there are plenty of beginner violin lessons for children too, if this is the case. The bottom line is for them to learn something they are already interested in.
These are really great ways to help improve your child’s confidence, but every child is different, so make sure you do what is best for them, as that at the end of the day is all that matters.
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