How To Build Self Esteem In Children

What is Self-Esteem (SE)? Discussing self-esteem can not be separated from discussing self-concept. The concept of self is the view of telling about ourselves including the panorama of appearance Our view of ourselves is strongly influenced by the way we translate the 'feedback' from others in our environment. How we capture other people's reactions to our words and deeds will have an effect on the formation of our self-concept. This process has been going on since we started bdrintegrating with the environment since we were babies.
What is the relationship of self-esteem with self-concept? Self-esteem evaluation or assessment of our self-concept. In addition to having a view of our actual self, we also have a picture of the ideal self. 'Ideal' is not the same as 'perfect'. The more we judge that our actual self approaches the self-image that we think is ideal, then our self-assessment is better (good me) or we say healthy helf ezteem. Conversely, the further the gap between the actual self and the ideal self, then the judgment about the self becomes worse (bad me), or said low self esteem. Self-esteem has levels in the continuum line of high-moderate- and low. People who experience low self-esteem usually have an unrealistic or irrational ideal of self-image that makes it more difficult to achieve, thus confirming that he is not good or incompetent. Build your child self? Healthy self-esteem is about feeling competent, feeling loved and 'approved', feeling valuable, useful, and comfortable with yourself. What is the benefit of having this feeling? Of course we will feel happier, positive, and optimistic in life. Imagine if our child felt the opposite? Imagine he felt worthless, useless, incompetent, unloved, unsupported, uncomfortable with himself. How are we going to live this life with those feelings? What will we do when we encounter difficulties if we feel incompetent? Children who experience low self-esteem will be more easily discouraged. Children become less confident, feeling pessimistic about the outcome of their efforts. Children who feel incompetent will consider the reward they receive is due to luck or coincidence, not because of their efforts. Furthermore, in the clinical field many studies have found self-esteem with depression, suicidal thoughts, and attempted suicide in adolescents. How to help children.? which is general or known by the term global self-esteem and there are specific in certain areas, such as self-physical, social, emotional, and academic. The level of self-esteem in one field may be different from the other. A child may have a high self-esteem in the academic field because he or she feels competent in academics, but has a low self-esteem self-esteem because it is often ridiculed fat and ugly by his friends. Self-esteem in the specific field can affect global self-esteem if the field is considered important by the individual concerned and by significant people around him. If you want to help a child with low self-esteem to improve their self-esteem, then we need to know first what areas he or she is feeling inferior and how important that field is to him. In general, there are 2 things to consider in building self-esteem, namely: Develop a sense of competence in the areas that are considered important by the child and his environment. Provide positive feedback about the child.