What helps children grow up feeling happy is the affection that parents can give and show them. Child psychology reveals that feeling loved will give them strength to grow up feeling more self-confident.
Affection is transmitted by listening to them, being by their side when they need it to solve something or calming them down when they feel scared:
Helping children manage emotions.
Helping them learn how to manage their fears will enable them to overcome them.
Helping them identify the emotions they felt can help them experience the situation as more understandable. When they express their feelings of concern about something that has happened to them, in addition to listening carefully, it is important to be able to ask them how they felt about the situation they experienced.
If the situation they are talking about was traumatic for them, being able to verbalize what happened and identify the emotions helps them rethink what they could have done and will make them better able to react to difficult situations. This will be useful for future situations that may arise.
Identifying emotions will also help them have greater empathy for others. They will be better able to put themselves in the other person’s shoes and understand the interests and intentions of others, which will help them to communicate better with their environment and have better social skills.
Encourage children’s curiosity
Encourage them to enjoy searching. Children are naturally curious and try to find out what things are like in their environment. To be able to accompany them in the discovery of the world through play is a way to help them in their learning. They will feel more confident in the face of the new and that will enhance their eagerness to search, discover and learn more things.
Discipline to make children happier
In order for the child to feel more self-confident and happy, it is important to have an environment with clear limits. This means that they can identify clear guidelines for behavior, that they know what they can and cannot do at different times throughout the day and in their life in general.
It helps children if discipline, concentration and effort are encouraged. These three aspects of behavior will be useful to them in life from the time they reach school age. In young children it is common to see how they feel very satisfied when they have achieved success as a result of discipline, concentration and effort. Discipline is especially important to help them persevere in what they want to achieve and be able to pursue what they like.
Success in this case can be achieving to solve a game that is a challenge for them, getting good grades in school or tying their shoelaces. Any of these three situations or others that we can think of require discipline, concentration and effort.
Helping them to persevere so that they can discover the end result will help them to experience success with the satisfaction of achieving something that has been difficult, as well as the satisfaction of discovering something new.
Achieving something they want through their own effort, working with discipline and concentration, helps them discover how things can be achieved and that they do not happen by chance or luck.
And no less important is to help them value the positive things they have in themselves without falling into the trap of comparing themselves to others.