Title: How can you help your child develop confidence, resourcefulness, and capability?
Headings: 12 Tips To Raise a Competent Child
12 Tips To Raise a Competent Child
1. Let him try to do it himself from the earliest age.
"Look at you way up there! Wow!"
2. Help her build confidence by tackling manageable challenges with your assistance.
3. Don't test him.
4. Empathize with your child's excitement about achievements, instead of evaluating her.
5. Praise effort, not results.
6. Encourage mistakes.
7. Don’t set him up for failure.
8. Teach self-encouragement.
9. Model positive self-talk.
10. Manage frustrating circumstances.
11. Affirm your child’s ability to impact the world.
12. Foster Responsibility, Good Judgment, Optimism and Persistence
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Content: Do it just like you do anything else, by using the names in everyday life. " Let's get the purple one." ) There is never a reason to test your child. And lecturing, drilling and testing aren't the most effective ways to teach. Children learn when  they discover for themselves. 4. Empathize with your child's excitement about achievements, instead of evaluating her. If you call Grandma in front of your child to report on your child's latest achievement, you're setting your child up to worry that unless she's  brilliant and precocious, she's a disappointment. That creates a child who worries that she always needs to impress those around her. If you  tell her she's smart, that makes it worse, because she knows that she isn't always smart, and she doesn't know how to get smarter -- it isn't  something she has control over.