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A confident child is one who is given many opportunities to be successful at. Children need to be molded and cared for like a flowering tree that is first a seed. Listening to what they need emotionally from both parents and how well they positively respond will create a blossoming child with high selfesteem.
This takes me to another good reason for why children in the U.S can have low selfesteem. I won't bore you with repeats of self image issues from skinny models all over television, magazines and the big screen. We as Americans have over 20 varieties of cereals to choose from and over 100 varieties of candies in the the front of every supermarket known to man. We come home and tell our kids how fat we are and how fat they will become if they start to eat the 10 varieties of hot pockets, pop tarts and soda you just brought home. We as parents then proceed to turn on our T.V sets and watch the Miss America pagant.
Children need to be noticed, listened to and nurtured into the best people we as parents can provide. If we give them choices, show trust and concern and offer opportunity they will grow up to be amazing self confident adults.
We keep talking about parents but what about our teachers. If a child can't read or keep up in the class we again play the blame game. Who is blamed for a low self esteem in children then? It's a whole different topic to say that the school system needs to be remade, revamped or modernized. Right now, don't think that a teacher can't effect a child's selfesteem and it will stay with them forever.
Children now will be the ones to choose our nursing homes later, run our country and will run our militaries. Their selfesteem will guide them to be as successful as the words that have touched them, the other children that taunt them and the teachers not willing to help them. The question isn't how important is self esteem in early childhood. The question is why isn't selfesteem an important factor in childhhood.

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