Have you been parenting using positive or negative enforcement? Both techniques main objective is to curve the child’s actions. Parenting using positive reinforcement, or child affirmations, focuses on what the child is doing right rather than pointing out what is wrong. This technique encourages your child’s positive actions and qualities through verbal enthusiasm, descriptive encouragement, and simple rewards.
Through the use of child affirmations over time, your child will start to realize the value of their positive qualities and actions and associate that with who they are as a person.
Building Your Child’s Identity Through Child Affirmations
As a child transitions throughout different stages in life, they will have to overcome challenges. Whether it be some other child bullying them or a situation where they are just uncomfortable in. Some bigger then others, but those challenges will still make a mark in their hearts.
In order to successfully overcome those challenges emotionally, they need to have a healthy emotional mindset. Including how they value themselves, how they see their self-image, and their basic belief structure.
It is our job as parents to do the best we can to build up a positive belief system in our child’s mind.
There will come a point where that belief system is going to get challenged.
We live in a world that is constantly telling us we are not good enough. But we do not have to let our children believe that.
We can start teaching them at a young age that they are in fact good enough, if not BETTER then what they are supposed to be.
Incorporate Positive Identities Throughout the Family
First thing, we need to believe that WE ARE ENOUGH. We need to incorporate positive self-love and worth in how we talk about ourselves and our family. Build up your family with positive words allowing the child affirmations to be seen in action. This will encourage positivity to come naturally to their minds.
We are the biggest role models our children have. Our actions and words really do make the difference. It is honestly amazing how much impact these child affirmations of love and kind words have on those tiny hearts. Use that love and create a child that believes they are enough just the way they are.
Encouragement is the Best Way to Shape Character
Encourage them to notice the little details even if that means they ask a million questions. They are curious.