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How to cultivate children's self-confidence
Several ways to cultivate children's self-confidence: [1] Self-confidence is a psychological state of believing in oneself, an essential personality characteristic of healthy children and a basic requirement of natural quality. In teaching activities, children's self-confidence can be cultivated in various ways, so that children can continuously enhance their self-confidence. (1) Give children a chance to try. Let's look at an example first: small class children enter the garden accompanied by their parents-teacher, my children can't dress themselves. Will you help him? Teacher, my children can't eat by themselves Will you help feed him during Chinese food? My child can't wear pants; The child has never left home or eaten by himself since he was so big. Can you adapt? On the one hand, the child's crying, on the other hand, the parents' uneasy persuasion, that scene is really sad. Why is this happening? The reason is simple: these children have no chance to try things, and everything is replaced by adults. In fact, every child is willing to try to do things by himself. Why not seize this desire of children and create opportunities for them to try? 1. Cultivate children to do their own things: eat, dress, go to the toilet, wash their faces and brush their teeth, organize toys, etc. Children should do it all by themselves. Don't think that these trivial things in life can be done for your child at will, even if he can't now, he will grow naturally, without asking him; Or think that the child is young and has poor ability, making him do too much work. If he can't do it well, he will have to do it again by himself. It's better to do it for him, which saves worry and trouble. As everyone knows, the result of this is that children's enthusiasm for exploration is dampened, and their enthusiasm and self-confidence also disappear. When a child is good at imitating and willing to try to do things by himself, he should seize the favorable opportunity, boldly let go, support and encourage him to do his own things with his own little hands. For example, if a child over one year old wants to eat by himself, we adults only need to teach him how to hold a spoon, how to put rice in his mouth and other skills, without emphasizing that he can't drop rice, so that he can feel the joy of eating by himself, and with the timely guidance, praise and encouragement of adults, the child will have the confidence to do things by himself; Older children can't just ask him to put the rice in his mouth, but should emphasize that they can't drop it. Because letting children do what they can or do overnight, even if they do, they will often encounter setbacks and resistance or be too smooth, so their confidence in doing things will be gone and their self-confidence will not be cultivated. 2. Give sincere love and trust to children when they fail: The humanistic psychologist Rogers calls warmth, love, care, respect, recognition and caress positive attention, and regards it as the source of universal human needs and self-confidence, which will make children feel safe and have trust in their surroundings. Only sincere love and trust can give children the courage to overcome difficulties and achieve ultimate success. Teachers and parents are the most trustworthy people in children's minds. When they encounter difficulties or setbacks, what they want most is their comfort and help. When a child encounters difficulties, we should try our best to make him understand that we believe that he can overcome difficulties and do everything well, and at the same time, we should enthusiastically help him find out the problem.