Difficulty: Moderately Easy
Instructions
1. Step 1
Encourage a child deal with their anger. Anger is a natural reaction, but obsessing or letting the anger dominate a child's actions can be unhealthy. When a child is angry, you should talk to a child about what made them angry and why. By praising a child when they calming down, you are reinforcing positive behaviors.
2. Step 2
Talk child through what is good about them and who they are. This will help them build a multi-facetted self image that will survive a setback. As an adult, your child will thank you for helping them remember that they are more than their job if they ever find themselves unemployed.
3. Step 3
Teach a child that approval of others is not necessarily a measure of a person's worth. Approval from others can make a child feel good, but it can make them susceptible to disappointment when they lose that approval. One parenting technique to ground the child in other aspects of human interactions such love, companionship, family etc. that can be as fulfilling as approval from others. This technique will help your child resist peer pressure when they get older.
4. Step 4
Encourage a child to keep trying and that a setback doesn't mean everything is over. Children (and adults) can suffer from a "fear of failure". Good parenting techniques help a child to not be afraid of making mistakes. Perfection can be self defeating goal and can lead to child be reluctant to admit mistakes as well as learn from them.
5. Step 5
Finally, help the child understand that negative feelings are natural and aren't bad in themselves. These feelings can cause problems if they let them absorb or dominate a person's thinking. A helpful technique is to have the child verbalize or describe their feelings. This will help them understand what they are feeling and be able to move past them.
From ehow
