Building Your Child’s Self Confidence

(material provided by The Incredible Years, Carolyn Webster-Stratton, Ph.D.)

• Value and give your full attention to your children’s play activities.
• Listen to your children — watch for times when your child is open to talking — don’t pressure them to talk if they don’t want to.
• Reinforce your children’s learning efforts by describing what they are doing.
• Praise your children’s efforts as well as their successes.
• Follow your child’s lead when talking with them or playing.
• Spend regular daily time with your children.
• When reading
• Ask open-ended questions;
• Avoid commands and corrections;
• Offer help when your child wants it.
• Create opportunities for children to retell stories that they have memorized.
• Encourage children to write their own stories or to dictate them to you.
• Read to children often and allow them to see you reading.
• Encourage children to make up stories and act them out.

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