Dear Mummies & Daddies,
Are you informed of the wealth of benefits that come with your child’s confidence?
Confidence is a measure of one’s belief in one’s own abilities.
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It is crucial to instill a sense of self-confidence in the formative years of your child’s life. Self-confidence is a tool that allows your child to manage their fears and tackle life challenges with a positive mental attitude.
Self-confidence has a positive effect on academic performance. Academic performance aside, self-confidence has general benefits for your child. These benefits include: happiness, better health and social ease.
Most importantly, the latter benefits will inevitably result in knock-on effects for increased academic performance.
Benefit #1: Increased Performance
Lack of self-confidence can impede your child from achieving peak performance.
This can be the direct result of rational and irrational fears. So long as academic performance is concerned, your child’s level of self-confidence is directly related to his or her level of exam preparation.
A child’s rational fear of failure stems from a lack of preparation for his or her exam. Thus, adequate exam preparation is crucial in eliminating your child’s rational fear. Exam preparation can be broken down into a two-pronged approach. It necessarily involves both theory revision and the attempting of past year papers.
Irrational fear of failure may stem from anxiety and sheer exam nerves rather than a lack of preparation.
Conversely, a healthy dose of self-confidence will motivate your child in achieving peak performance.
Being confident helps your child perform better amidst pressure and challenges. They are not easily discouraged. Those who believe in their own capabilities use the skills they have to excel in what they do and to achieve their goals. Confident children are aware of every day risks but instead of avoiding them they embrace risks as part and parcel of life. Hence, they take more chances, opening more doors of opportunities.
Benefit #2: Higher Happiness Level
Studies have shown that children with a healthy level of self-confidence are happier and contented with their lives in general. They rise above the circumstances. They choose to see the brighter things in life, despite of and in spite of challenges.
Your child’s confidence can help him or her face the world with more eagerness and determination, allowing them to forge better relationships and perform better at school.
Confident children radiate a positive aura. Their attitude in life is not determined by the circumstances they are in but rather it is something that comes from within.
Individuals who are confident do not wait for things to happen. They make things happen. They are optimistic although there are times when their confidence is challenged. Confident children are happy because they find their lives meaningful.
Benefit #3: Social Ease
Confident children are more at ease in social situations and in meeting new students. They do not rely on what others think because they trust themselves enough.
Self-confidence gives your child more freedom in doing what him or her wants to do and in pursuing his or her goals because they are not being held back by the fear of rejection. Your child is not discouraged by negative remarks.
Confident children are more optimistic about the future and relate that enthusiasm to others through the way they carry themselves and the way they communicate. Others will listen more if your child displays self-confidence.
Confidence is often contagious and brings a spirit of optimism in your child’s relationship with others.
Benefit #4: Better Health
Children who believe in themselves are able to deal with stressful situations without becoming chaotic themselves. They know that they are capable of making a decision and are able to make constructive efforts to solve whatever problem has arisen.
This in itself will help them to reduce or avoid excessive stress, anger and/or confusion – all the negative side effects of feeling powerless, overwhelmed and out of control. Self-confident children are therefore on one of the paths to good health and taking pleasure in life.
The ability to handle stress at a young age directly translates into better physical, emotional and psychological health.
In conclusion…
Self-confidence in undeniably fundamental to academic success. However, the precursor to self-confidence is undoubtedly cliché. It is definitely all about preparation, preparation and more preparation. This is the key step toward stellar academic achievement.
As mentioned above, the general benefits of your child’s confidence will positively impact his or her academic performance tangibly.
Essentially, self-confidence is not only vital to having a happy childhood. It paves the way to greater success in your child’s future years.
