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: He'll  complete the job hugely proud, and having learned something about how to plan and execute a complex project. 8. Teach self-encouragement. Research shows that children who "talk" themselves through challenges stay calmer and are therefore able to persevere when the going gets tough. So model maxims to repeat as mantras. " Practice makes perfect!" and "If you don't succeed, try, try again!" and "I think I can, I think I can!" work remarkably well to manage ourselves in the face of frustration. When your son goofs a piece on the piano and has to start over, or your daughter strikes out with the bases loaded, they need an automatic internal  comforting voice to encourage and motivate them, not that harsh, self-disparaging voice.