Title: How to Help Your Child Learn Appropriate Behavior | Parenting
Headings: How to Help Your Child Learn Appropriate Behavior
How to Help Your Child Learn Appropriate Behavior
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Content: For a child to learn, and behave, in what society sees as a socially acceptable manner, they need to have confidence, self-esteem, self-restraint and a respect for others. He or she needs to be able to manage conflict within relationships, listen to others, show empathy, take turns, share and win and lose gracefully. To be able to do this, your child needs to feel secure and included. He or she needs the resilience and self-esteem to cope with setbacks and change. How You Can Help
There are a number of ways you can help your child. Actively listening to them, valuing their ideas and opinions, and involving them in discussions will help build a relationship of trust and understanding. You can help her build self-esteem by praising effort as much as results. Giving them clear and consistent boundaries and challenging bad behavior, making he or she understands what and why they’ve done wrong, helps good behavior become ingrained. Involving her in making decisions teaches her to consider all points of view and aim for a solution that works for everyone. He or she needs the opportunity to develop her social skills by interacting with others, both peers and adults, in a variety of situations.