Parenting Self-Confident Learners – PSLE (November)

(Strategies to help parents raise self-confidence in their children to improve their learning)

Self-confidence is the best gift a parent can give to a child. With self-confidence, a child will be able to achieve in life and to ‘bounce back’ from whatever setbacks he will encounter throughout his life. It is a life skill which will help your child to survive and thrive on his own.

Key Areas Covered:

Children will learn

• To identify their own strengths
• How to use positive self-talk and banish negative self-talk
• How to make use of success to grow more successes
• How to use mistakes and failures to gain success

Parents will learn

• To identify the strengths of their child
• How to regulate their own as well as their children’s emotions
• Recognise worries in their child and how to manage them
• Use their strengths to motivate their child in their learning
• Use failure management skills to help child cope with failures

Duration:

1 session of 4 hours

Target Audience:

Parents of primary school children