Don’t bother wasting your money buying your preschooler every little thing he begs for or feeding him all the junk food he wants. The most nourishing gift you can give your child is self-esteem.
It’s the feeling of love trust and respect he feels for himself. This belief in the value of oneself is learned behavior and begins at birth.
If a preschooler were to look in the mirror, his self- esteem would be the reflection of what he sees there; a boy who feels good about himself because he is loved and protected and respected by his parents and other family members.
A preschooler with low self-esteem would see a different reflection. He would see someone who in the eyes of his family appears to be a nobody, in the way, bad, incapable.
The preschooler with low self-esteem grows into the child with low self-esteem and then into the same kind of adult.
He is rarely happy, rarely does well in school, and usually acts up at home.
When those around him have constantly told him or shown him that he is a nobody, bad, unimportant, he becomes that.
A child learns what he is taught.
Those taught to like themselves are most likely to be successful.
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