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When parents think their child is a failure

When parents think their child is a failure, that child has a great percentage of growing up with low self esteem. Many kids these days have that low self esteem because of their parents and what their parents think about them. Children may not act on it now, but in the future, it has always been stuck their in head. A child doesn't need to be told that they are a failure, what they need to do is instead of telling them how wrong they are, maybe try and help them with what they need help with so they can do a better job.

As a child gets older, their low esteem can become a great emotional problem throughout their high school years which would make them very difficult to concentrate on and not do the greatest. A child needs positive feed backs like "at least your trying" or even "your getting a lot better". That type of thing. They need to know that they are making their parents proud because as long as they are trying their best.. then its giving everything they have and thats deffinitley not a failure.

When a parent tells them they are a failure, it can make them lose more confidence in them selves. It can damage them in the future and hurt their feelings to the fullest. If a child is a failure, most of the time all they want to do is give up and stop trying which isn't the best way to deal with something they are having a hard time with.

Parents need to stop giving up on their kids if they are doing some thing wrong and try to give them more confidence when they deffinitley need it. Then they will want to keep going until they have something right other than being bashed. It's deffinitley not right.

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