Growth And Development: Helping Your Child Build Self-esteem: What Helps A Child Develop Healthy Self Esteem

Growth And Development: Helping Your Child Build Self-esteem
Introduction
What helps a child develop healthy self-esteem?
Why should you help your child develop healthy self-esteem?
How you can help your child develop healthy self-esteem
Where to go from here
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What helps a child develop healthy self-esteem?

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You can promote your child's development of healthy self-esteem by starting a cycle of belonging, learning, and contributing. A sense of belonging helps a child to participate in learning new things; learning makes a child feel confident in making contributions; making contributions helps secure a feeling of belonging. This cycle helps establish and strengthen a child's self-esteem.

Developing healthy self-esteem is a process that continues throughout life and helps a person act responsibly, cooperate well with others, and have the confidence to try new things.

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Last updated:	April 17, 2008
Author:	Jeannette Curtis
Reviewed By:	Michael J. Sexton, MD - Pediatrics, Mina Dulcan, MD - Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Editors:	Susan Van Houten, RN, BSN, MBA, Pat Truman, MATC

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