HOW TO HELP EMPOWER YOUR KIDS

5. Help children to understand their challenges

Encouraging children to acknowledge when they need help or assistance will empower them to be more confident and not ashamed of their challenges. This also helps them to feel more at ease with doing something to address the difficulties they face. But the first step is to talk with your children about their specific challenges. It’s not uncommon for kids to feel like something is unfixable in their lives if parents refuse to talk about it. It’s important to give children the resources needed to empower them and feel in control of such challenges.

Empowering children matters

Children and youth are leaders today and will be the leaders of tomorrow. It’s important that the caring adults in their lives help them to develop healthy selfesteem, confidence and resilience. Empowering children today helps to ensure a better future.

Children First Canada

Deanne Tobin Sinha

6. Encourage daily routines

The word “routine” should get more credit than it does. While the fun-loving and whimsical types might argue that routines are boring, routines can be valuable in many ways. This is especially true when it comes to helping children to feel empowered. Routines provide the structure that children need to develop basic life skills, and they create space for kids to take ownership. Routines help children to organize, plan and schedule. Through this framework, kids gain valuable pathways to learning and accomplishment.

7. Teach kids to dream big

When your kids come to you with big ideas, it’s important to let them dream and don’t be quick to dismiss their thoughts. Kids who feel like their parents believe in them, are more likely to believe in themselves and have confidence in their capabilities. When it’s safe to do so, allow children to take risks and experience things for themselves too. Kids will achieve much higher levels when they understand the potential you see in them.