Your Child's Growth, Health and Development

Category: Parenting

Self-Confidence vs Self-Esteem 0

Child Development / Parenting / Self Esteem

Self-Confidence is NOT Self-Esteem!

Can you be confident but still have low self-esteem? Yes! What is self-confidence? Self-confidence comes from the trust you have in yourself. In other words, self-confidence is experience. The more experience you have, the more confidence you will have in being able to accomplish a certain task. This is easy...

Sons 0

Parenting

As a Mother Raising a Son

Today’s post is from a guest blogger. Mrs. Jeong shares her insights as a mom raising two active sons. This is translated from the original Korean post, so click on the Korean language link above if you would like to read the Korean version. As a mother raising a son,...

Self Esteem Love 0

Parenting / Self Esteem

12 Tips to Build Your Child’s Self Esteem

I attended a new parent seminar.  The presenter was a child psychologist who also had an extensive experience working as a guidance counselor in the public school system. There, I learned that as a parent, raising your children with high self esteem should be one of the top priorities. A...

Bilingual 0

Bilingualism / Parenting

On Raising a Bilingual Child

Benefits of Bilingualism Beyond the obvious and practical benefits of bilingualism, such as being equipped to understand a whole new culture, studies have shown that being bilingual has many other benefits. For example: According to a 2004 study by psychologists Ellen Bialystok and Michelle Martin-Rhee, bilingual preschoolers had an advantage in...