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The following links are in English

  • Children
    A website dedicated to empowering children to be active participants in creating their own healthy, calm lives. 4 children

  • BUILD YOUR CHILD'S SELF-ESTEEM
    In general, the more positive your self-esteem, the more successful you will be at dealing with life. The same holds for your children. The more positive their self-esteem, the more confident and proud they will be.

  • Building Self-esteem in Children
    Children do not come into the world equipped with a healthy sense of self-esteem. Rather, they enter life with a strong need to survive, an instinctual knowing that they are dependent on their caregivers to live. It is the job of the parents to build their children's sense of self-esteem, to help them achieve a strong sense of their own worth.

  • Building Your Child's Self-Esteem
    How do you want your child to feel about himself? Do you want baby to grow up thinking she is a good person, able to handle things in life? Do you want him to get along with others and to share his feelings? The way a person feels about herself is called "self-esteem." High self-esteem means feeling good about yourself.

  • Can You Praise Children Too Much?
    In the rush to give children a healthy dose of self-esteem, some adults go too far to praise children. And that can backfire. It doesn't take kids long to realize that all the praise may not be justified.

  • Helping Your Child Develop Self-Esteem
    Self-esteem is a major key to success in life. The development of a positive self-concept or healthy self-esteem is extremely important to the happiness and success of children and teenagers. This page will share the basics for helping kids and teens to improve their self-esteem.

  • How Can We Strengthen Children's Self-Esteem?
    Most parents want their young children to have a healthy sense of self-esteem. That desire can also be seen in education--schools around the country include self-esteem among their goals. Many observers believe that low self-esteem lies at the bottom of many of society's problems.

  • How to Grow Self-Esteem in Your Child
    Helping children develop self-esteem involves listening, accepting, and praising.

  • Improving Your Child's Self-esteem
    September is once again upon us and it is time to make back-to-school preparations for our children. A healthy supply of self-esteem, however, is more important than pens and paper for success in school. This article contains some tips and suggestions on how to boost your child's self-esteem as well as some resources to access.

  • Kids Help Line Peer Skills
    Peer Skills aims to provide skills, knowledge and strategies to assist young people to develop self-understanding and effective supportive relationships.

  • Self Esteem and Children
    Developing a clearer understanding of self-esteem and what affects its development should help you: help children feel good about themselves, and think more highly of yourself.

  • Shy Kids
    A resource for children, teens and parents dealing with shyness. Offers advice on overcoming shyness and coping with life as a shy person.

  • Ten ways to build your child's self-esteem
    Nurturing your toddler's self-esteem may seem like a hefty responsibility. After all, a feeling of self-worth lays the foundation for your child's future, as she sets out to try new things on her own. "Self-esteem comes from having a sense of belonging, believing that we're capable, and knowing our contributions are valued and worthwhile," says California family therapist Jane Nelsen, co-author of the Positive Discipline series.

  • The Best Toys/Tracy's Discovery Toys Site
    Discovery Toys offers educational and developmental products for children of all ages including Special Needs Children. Business opportunities available.

  • Wildhearts Wishupons
    Wildheart™ has created fantastical characters who teach children consideration, respect and the importance of believing in themselves. Whimsical characters address children's feelings - feelings that are sometimes misunderstood or overlooked.

  • YMCA parent tips: building your child's self-esteem
    Self-esteem is the basis of a child's mental health. It leads to confidence and an ability to tackle life's challenges. And it grows with the support of a parent or guardian who believes in the child's ability to succeed.

  • You & Your Child: Child's self-esteem overrated
    Another point of view - I believe in low self-esteem. Once upon a not-so-long-ago time, low self-esteem was known as humility and modesty. I believe in those old-fashioned virtues if for no reason other than that there's nothing so charming as a humble, modest individual, whether child or adult.

The following links are in Dutch

  • Improving Your Child's Self-esteem
    September is once again upon us and it is time to make back-to-school preparations for our children. A healthy supply of self-esteem, however, is more important than pens and paper for success in school. This article contains some tips and suggestions on how to boost your child's self-esteem as well as some resources to access.

The following links are in English

  • Children's Bedtime Stories for Raising Self-Esteem
    Children's Bedtime Stories for Raising Self-Esteem.

  • Educational, Unique, Chidren's Bedtime Stories
    Joy Stories™ is a series of original stories supported by positive messages for raising self-esteem in children, and are an effective method of providing opportunities for them to gain personal insights. Our, innovative stories, based on sound research and principles of confidence building, prove most effective at bedtime. The imaginative story line, along with original soothing background music, ease a child into a deep restful sleep while delivering a subtle and effective message that will build his/her self-esteem. Each of the stories allows a child to use his/her imagination while interpreting the story’s moral.

  • Self Esteem Shop
    Self Esteem Shop is your number one source for mental health resources. A therapist looking for the latest Eliana Gil book? A divorced parent looking for something to get you through the hard times? Self Esteem Shop has what you're looking for.

  • The Kids Hall of Fame
    This site serves as proof that kids, under the age of 20, can accomplish just about anything.


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