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raising emotionally healthy child

why aren’t our children emotionally healthy?

Children are born clean having no information about anything around them and not even about themselves. Whatever information you program the child with gets inserted deeply into his mind and so he grows up with it. The following section contains examples that show some incorrect practices that some parents may use when dealing with their children. These incorrect practices results in children having many personal disorders like fear, insecurity, inferiority and lack of self confidence.

Raising emotionally healthy child

If you want to raise emotionally healthy child make sure you avoid the following poor practices:

  • parents who care about their children in an over reacting way, by not letting them do anything for themselves and instead doing everything for them. This may create a dependant child who can’t live alone or even help himself when he faces a problem
  • parents who over worry about their children. For example always telling them to stay away of the oven , not to touch electric devices, not to walk alone or talk to strangers . this creates a child whom have a feeling of insecurity , he feels the world is not safe and no wonder that happened because his parents made him think of every thing as a possible threat, this may create a child who fears everything and whom is insecure
  • parents who always become anxious when dealing with new situations usually raises children who are always anxious and worried. The child just watches how his parents did react on the new situation and mimics them the next time he faces a similar situation
  • parents who lie to their children often have children who distrusts everyone because being lied to by the most trusted persons you makes no body else trust worthy
  • parents who don’t take their children’s opinion and just buy them their clothes or force them to do anything because they are still small children results in children having no self confidence .
  • parents who always call their children names like stupid or dumb may result in children who are feeling inferior
  • parents who always tells the child that he must spend less because they have no enough money results in a financially insecure grown up whom may do anything to earn money, although this may be good still he may loose many things midway in the journey for money

did that help?

yes,but tell me how to raise self confident childern?

How to prevent my child from developing an inferiority complex?

tell me how to prevent my teen from giving in to teenage peer pressure?

ok but i am always anxious and worried how to deal with that?

what causes fear of failure in children?

ok i am a parent but fear is my biggest problem, what to do?

yes but how to teach them to be confident while i am having no self confidence . I didn't find my question here.