Self-esteem of girls reaches the peak at the age of 9. It is your responsibility as a parent to boost your daughter’s self-esteem. Social media can have a very negative impact on the self-esteem of your daughter. The social networking sites are flooded with unrealistic images of exceptionally thin and beautiful women. Raising daughters in such a culture can indeed be a challenging task. However, with some expert advice and suggestions from clinical psychologists, the task may not be that difficult.
How to Build Self-Esteem in Daughters?
Aware of the Media:
First of all, you have to make your daughter aware of the media. Watch television with your daughter to help her realize the fake information given by the world of glitz and glitter. Make her understand that she should develop a keen eye for decoding and filtering media messages.
Balance the Compliments You Shower on Your Daughter:
In order to help daughters develop self-esteem and confidence, mothers undeniably play a pivotal role but be careful while complimenting your daughter on her appearance. You should not only focus on her physical appearance but compliment her other traits as well. A good method is to balance compliments directed toward physical appearance with non-appearance-based compliments. Apply this method to compliment your daughter’s friends, neighbors, relatives, etc. as well.
Encourage Team Sports:
For raising girls with healthy self-esteem encourage them to play some kind of sport in teams. Research shows that team sports boost the self-esteem of girls, as they are searching for values from other girls or from within instead of boys.
More Ways of Building Self-Esteem In Teenage Daughters
Praise the Hard Work:
Research shows girls in the adolescent period who were praised for their good scores due to hard work and effort performed better than those praised for their intelligence. Psychologists say that acknowledging intelligence as one of the traits instills fear of failure and this makes teenage girls less capable of handling setbacks.
Parental Support through Thick and Thin:
During adolescence, a parent’s advice, guidance, and suggestions play a key role in the mental growth and development of a teenage girl.
Foster Effective Communication:
Teenage girls want to be assured that their parents are always by their side without interfering in their private affairs too much. The secret to raising confident daughters is by lending a patient ear to them and standing by them through all their struggles without being judgmental.
Show Interest in Your Daughter’s Passion:
You can foster a strong bond with your daughter by showing interest in what she likes. This would give her the message that you care for her unconditionally and this can give a real boost to her self-esteem.
Discuss Taboo Subjects Openly:
The mother is a role model of a child and it is your responsibility as a parent to provide her with accurate information on all topics including drugs and sex. If you do not provide her with all the information, she will acquire distorted information from unreliable sources, which can lower her self-confidence and prove to be harmful to her in the long run.
Thus raising confident daughters needs a lot of patience, consistency, unconditional love, and support and is a long-term process. The key to bringing up a confident daughter is by making her speak for herself and involving her in a positive activity, be it sports, playing a musical instrument, or drama at an early age, in which she can achieve self-esteem by mastering a talent.
