Follow-up Friday: Natural Self-Esteem Questions and Answers Series Today!
June 6, 2008 at 9:06 am | In Creative Crayon Club, Families, Family Time, Focused Fridays, Fun Activities, GEM Parenting Secrets, Mothers, Self Esteem, Thoughtful Thursday, attitudes, children, dads, moms, peer pressure, relationships, respect, responsibilities | 1 CommentTags: attitude, bickering, children, gem parenting, grace mauzy, respect, responsibilities, Self Esteem, teenager
1) I was brought up in a house with little self esteem by my parents. Everything I did was not done right, with enough effort, or I just didn’t have the knack that others had. Now I have two boys. I think they are terrific. I hardly ever want to tell them that they can do better for fear that they will end up like me. But I think I am swinging the pendulum in the exact opposite direction of my mother. I read how there is a difference between egocentric and high self-esteem. How can I know the difference?
2) My children are constantly bickering. It seems they cannot spend more than two minutes together without starting out at each other. Then I get involved. We just go round and round in the same circle with no real end in sight. And what bothers me is that I spend all my time telling them how awful they are. I never seem to get around to letting them know that I even like them. How can I get past this?
3) I have three kids. All of them are exceptional. They are good and better than most at just about everything they do. I think they have really strong self-esteem but I want to be sure it stays that way and they don’t’ end up with some false sense of self esteem and just a bloated sense of themselves. Any ideas?
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Self-esteem is an inner action, it’s only you building it. When you give esteem to others, you’ll get it back and you’ll build your self-esteem. An important theme. I’m writing about it too.
Comment by sikantis — June 12, 2008 #