One of the best things parents can give their children is a positive attitude to life. Parents will feel confident and satisfied because their children are well equipped with life skills to overcome difficulties and challenges. We live in an unstable and transforming world where many things are beyond our control. Usually, the way we control changes depending on how we see the situation. Helping children become optimistic and “always look at the bright side of life” is a crucial step to best prepare them for a stable future. So, what is optimism and how to help your child be optimistic? Reading the article on our TrueRemedies site to learn more!
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10 Easy Tips To Help Your Child Be Optimistic Parents Should Know
I. What Is Optimism?
Optimism is a mental attitude expecting the best things from life experiences. This means that you are full of hope and have strong faith and confidence to deal with various situations in life. Optimistic people have positive thoughts. They always look at the bright side to overcome challenges and solve difficulties in life.
II. Is Optimism Important?
There are a few reasons we need to give below to see the importance of teaching children to be optimistic.
1. Optimistic Kids Attract Friends, Pessimistic Children Push Relationships Back
Like us, being with someone who is always optimistic about all things will make us happier and more comfortable and give us more motivation. And so does a child. Children like to be around children who can have fun or solve a difficult lesson easily with them.
2. Positive Children Can Cheer On Others
When someone falls into a negative state, words of encouragement are important for them to overcome and continue their work. And only people with positive thinking can offer the most insightful and sensible advice when needed. Especially, the cute thinking of young children will be like sweet medicine to make people happy again.
3. Children Who Think Positively Always Feel Happier
Being optimistic has many benefits for your children and the ultimate reason you should help your child become an optimist is that he will always feel happy. Optimistic living helps improve his immune system, become more flexible, and cope with stress and fatigue better. And that's why optimistic people always feel happy, cheerful, and energetic.
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4. Optimistic Children Often Find Positive Solutions Easily
Perhaps we have heard many stories about a child who has dangerous actions for himself and others due to frustration or boredom. That is because he always thinks in the opposite direction to everything around him to free himself. It is so sad! Teach your child to positive things so that when he gets stuck, he will always see the best solutions.
5. Improve Physical Well-being
Harvard University conducted a study on 25-year-old students and observed them for a long time. They conclude that optimistic people have better physical health than pessimists when they enter their age of 45 to 60[1].
6. Become More Resilient
Optimistic living helps to face difficulties in life with a strong and determined spirit. Optimists have the admirable ability to focus on what they can do to achieve better results when they face difficulties. So, they can overcome the challenges of life easily.
Other benefits of positive living include:
- Increased life span
- Reduce rates of stress and depression
- Better coping skills during difficulties and times of stress
- Reduce the risk of death from cardiovascular disease
Helping your child be an optimistic person is not easy, but its benefits are worthy for you to make an effort. I don't mean you have to change your kids' personality, but sometimes in this life, you can change something for kids to be more optimistic. Is your child an optimist? And I will share with you some tips on how to help your child be optimistic!
III. How To Help Your Child Be Optimistic
1. Not Too Strict With Children
It is essential to discipline and teach your children, but too strict, or controlling them in all things hurts their innocent, innocent soul, negatively affecting their health and psychology.
It should be based on the right age and adulthood of children to have an appropriate education. Based on the child's psychological characteristics and personality, you plan optimal educational measures. Only when enjoying the right of choice, your children can feel the meaning of freedom and happiness.
2. Encourage Your Kids To Make Friends
Kids who do not make friends often have signs such as few words, mood disturbance, and even depression because they are always alone and unaware of the joy and warmth of friendship, gradually forming shyness or autism.
Friendship plays an important role in fostering an open and cheerful personality in children. So parents need to encourage and boost children to play with friends, especially their peers to find joy, as well as learning ways on how to live in harmony with others.
3. Teach Children To Be More Sociable
Firstly, you need to teach your child how to behave in harmony with their parents and siblings. Secondly, always love each other and have a spirit of solidarity. Lastly, teach your children how to interact with people of different ages, genders, personalities, occupations, and positions, which will help them to learn how to behave in harmony with everyone.
To do this, parents need to show children the harmony and respect in their own home and be a good example for children to encourage emulation.
4. Support Children When They Fail
When children do not achieve good results, they often lose their temper and lack confidence. In this moment, parents need to be there to support and encourage the child.
For example, if your child does not get a good score in the exam, please encourage him: “Perhaps this time you're not well prepared, the next time you will definitely do better because my son is intelligent and studious.”
5. Limit Children To Become Material Greedy
Giving children too many things causes them to be easy to form wrong thoughts: Success and happiness are simple. From then on, they will be lazy, rely on others, always feel unsatisfied about the material desire, which then will cause greedy psychology and not want to share with others.
You should teach your child: The happiness that people gain is not from material assets, but basically, it is from the love of humans. Since then, it helps your child improve his personality.
6. Never Give Children Negative Words
You can adjust and comment on your child's behaviors, and sometimes you can gently reproach him but absolutely you should not use the words such as useless, harmful, stupid, futile, etc. when talking to him.
Children often tend to believe their parents. So, if you regularly use these words to comment on your child, when growing up, he will be as you say.
7. Create A Harmonious Family
Family harmony is one of the key factors for fostering children's optimism and joy. Many studies show that children raised in a happy family have a higher rate of happy life later than children raised in a family full of conflicts[2].
Moreover, the harmonious family will be a solid foundation for children to feel safe and happy and to boost their creativity and talent. When growing up, children will be fully developed and improved all life skills.
8. Nurture Children's Hobbies
You need to pay attention to your child's interests, give him many different choices, and guide them when needed.
The richer the hobbies are, the more cheerful personality will be formed naturally and easily. Even, this is also an effective treatment for depression in children.
9. Set Goals
Let your child set small goals such as a to-do list before breakfast, including bed cleaning, dressing, brushing his teeth, personal hygiene, etc. And then, and encourage him to accomplish them. That will help your child foster confidence and a positive attitude when facing greater challenges in life.
10. Let Your Child Solve The Problem On Himself
If you help your child solve his problems in life, he will be difficult to develop the capacity to solve problems on himself and the ability to face problems confidently.
Your help can prevent your child from finding solutions and discovering the problem on his own. In other words, it's best to let your child fail or be disappointed a few times. In that way, he can learn how to solve the problem.
Did you know all the tips on how to help your child be optimistic? Always believe in your child's ability to learn and adapt to different situations in life, and become a companion to guide him and to let them discover the great things in life!
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