David Lawrence Preston

Tag: parenting

  • Self-esteem is happiness and success

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    Self-esteem is happiness, success and a whole lot besides. It governs your behaviour in every area of your life and without it you’ll almost certainly underachieve. Self-esteem is the experience of feeling that you’re worthy of happiness and capable dealing with life. It’s a combination of self-confidence (beliefs about your capabilities) and self-respect (beliefs about…

  • Building Self-Esteem in Children

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    Whether a parent, teacher or simply a friend of the family, the most important thing an adult can do for a child is to help build their confidence and self-esteem. High self-esteem can only be learned from parents who have solid sense of their own self-worth. How can we place self-esteem at the heart of…

  • Parenting – the most important job

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    Raising children is the most important job we take on, but most of us are ill prepared for this important role. There are no college courses and no degrees in parenting, it’s a trial and error process, so what can we do to ensure that we are bringing up our children to be the happiest,…