How To Raise Optimistic Children

Whether your child raises up as an optimistic or pessimist individual is what you can decide today.

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Here is a quick checklist for you in this regard:

Positive Environment

If a child is raised in a negative environment, this is for sure going to effect his mentality. A negative mind can not come up with a positive outcome. Contrarily, a family where all the family members tackle even the tough situations without getting panicked and transferring the frustration to the children, the children won't be pessimists.

Give Time To Your Kids

Neglected children start feeling that they are worthless and unimportant. Even in a positive family environment, children need time so they don't develop a feeling a neglect. This leads to negativity and pessimism. Parents should spare time even 5 minutes for their very busy routine for their children individually. These five minutes can save your children from the very negative feeling of neglect and they will stay optimistic.

Sharing Is Caring

Children who are pampered they develop authoritative behavior. Since they are the most favorite children of their parents so parents submit to all their desires even to those that are not good for them. These parents fail to teach these pampered children the very important skill of sharing. Sharing leads to empathy and thus even the authoritative children will start caring the children around them. This will help them not be bullies in school.

Sense Of Proportion

Discipline is very much important for raising children that become functional individuals of the society. However, as they say, life is all about balance. So, very strict discipline may help your children get good scores in academics but they will develop the habit of extra seriousness that might result in taking everything in life very seriously. These type of individuals never let go of things easily. Parents can stop this thing from happening by adding a little humor to life of their family. Too much humor or too much seriousness won't help you raise optimistic children.

Children Make Mistakes

To err is human. We all make mistakes and so do our children. When children make mistakes, don't stress out rather discuss this with them because every mistake has a lesson. Teach them the positive side of these mistakes and help them learn problem-solving. Children learn more when they are engaged in something. If we stress out on them when they make mistakes, we will stop their learning.

Lead Them By Example

We all have problems in life. Many of us stress out even in front of our children. Parents are the role models for their children and they will mimic every thing you do in front of you. We all have heard about children how they took lipstick of her mother and wore it all over her body. Children are keen observers and all our actions leave prints on the plain slate of the mind. If parents show strength in front of children even during very stressed out times, they will lead their children to be strong during similar situations.

Expert Opinion

In this video, Katie Hurley shares some very useful tips about raising happy kids.

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The interview was aired on Fox News.

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