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Appreciation & Motivation
 

As a parent you play a very important and vital role in shaping the development and self-esteem of your child, so it become necessary not only to become a role model to them, but also need means and ways to have them unified into your life, this helps in developing the kids morale and value in the long run. Following are the ways which would help to enhance that ability, the child’s greatest emotional needs is to get appreciated & motivated. Both of these has its own meaning and differences. Appreciation is to make them feel good of what they have in them or what the child did, while, motivation is to tell them that, they can do good, also how they can improve.

Efforts always scores higher over than ability - It’s found that, praising a child for their efforts to do something always scores higher over the ability to do something, this helps in attributing their success to the efforts that has put across by the child, and further this enables the child to understand that developing his skills is equally or more important than the talent he possess. Just by extending the praises for the efforts that the child has put into any task makes them more motivated and this leads to development in this mindset to look for such more challenging aspect at every stage of their life and career.

Why should you Compare: Each child is unique in his/her way, and its applicable to all, and we have this habit as parent to keep comparing the child with those of our colleagues, neighbours, peers, relatives, and this leads to nothing fruitful rather you should help them to foster their traits and strength which will turn them confident.

Your time is what they seek: It’s really important that you spare time for their, I agree life has become too demanding these days, with work and mobile phones, but it’s ideal to spare and spend time with the child by ways like family outings, games, pick up some hobby which interest your child, sports is one such way to engage together and enhance the bonding.

Let them chase what they like: Often its observed that parents what their child to live their life and do things which they could not do or achieve, many times they want their child to do what their peers, colleagues & neighbours child opt, and starts comparing, but it would be ideal to have the kid pursue their hobby, it could be being a sportsmen, would like ballet, or want to do something in art, it could be anything, being supportive would help rather writing it off. Encouraging child to do or go after what they want, be their support.

Decision Making: Many times we take the decision for the child on his/her behalf, by allowing the kid to weigh in on decision making enable them to feel a valuable member of the family, not only related to his/her concern or issues, but those smaller aspect like family outing, dinner place, and seeking their idea and suggestion without interrupting them goes long way in building that trust and confidence and opportunity to the kid to weigh with options and learn about them.

Hence, to summarise, if we look at ourselves, at this age and hour we too look for appreciation and motivation, which is similar with growing child, they too need lot more motivation and appreciation then we do. Laxity on this aspects lets to make the child complex, appreciation helps develop health self-esteem and turn into a secure adult. Do remember to appreciate your child, research has shown that by the age of 8 a child learns more than 60% of what they will learn in their entire life, researcher further states that learning slow down by the age of 8, the reason being lack appreciation and motivation. Thus its important to appreciate what a child do basis his level of interest and we create enough room for motivation. Try doing this and see the outcome.

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