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Parents and teachers can foster self-respect and respect for others. Build self-esteem by positive feedback, giving clear directives, showing faith in your child, correcting behaviors not the child, using humor, and learning from mistakes. Teaching children self-respect and respect for others is one thing you can do for your child which outranks all others. Yet much of a parent’s mental effort is spent on providing the best in nutrition, clothes, health, status, education and other amenities for their offspring. Yet parents can foster self-esteem in their children. Instilling self-esteem is a process. It is like greenware in ceramics--it is very fragile while it is being formed. That process takes years and is the most vital product of childhood. Success in adult life is statistically linked more to self-confidence than any... [read full story]
