Building Your Child's Self-Esteem

Book excerpt: Self-esteem is your sense of personal worth. It encompasses both self-confidence and self-acceptance. In part, healthy self-esteem comes from your awareness of the value you add to your family and the community. In Building Your Childs Self-Esteem, author Yvonne Brooks provides a step-by-step guide for improving childrens self-esteem. Practical and hands-on, with clear and concise instructions, Building Your Childs Self-Esteem shows parents how to identify healthy and low self-esteem behaviors in their children. Parents will also learn how to overcome and correct unproductive habits that limit their childs performance. From developing a series of ideas for empowering children toward self-responsibility and awareness, parents will get the information needed to activate their childs potential for maximum success. Parents will learn how self-esteem manifests in children, how children with healthy and low self-esteem communicate, and how healthy and low self-esteem characteristics affect parenting skills. Building Your Childs Self-Esteem provides guidance to help parents manifest and produce healthy, confident, courageous children.