Episode 28: Teaching YOUR Kids Self Affirmation
- Brief Summary of objectives (3):
- Why is self-affirmation.
- Benefits of self-affirmation
- Practice self-affirmation
- Topic 1: Why is self-affirmation.
- Self-Affirmation and mantras are both important tools for children to begin to learn the ways to support themselves.
- Positive Self-affirmations helps kids in gaining confidence, growing their minds, and helping them to believe in themselves. (Teachers can use positive affirmations to create a positive and supportive environment within their classroom.)
- Helping kids see their strength and what makes them special must happen over and over again.
- Because self affirmation affects our neural pathways and we are able to make changes to the areas of our brain for positive and happy
- Topic 2: Benefits of self-affirmation
- Improved mood – it has been shown that positive affirmations help to improve your mood by reducing negative thoughts, as well as helping you become aware of patterns
- Creates self confidence in your children and they are able to help themselves in creating positive moods and believing in themselves.
- Improves your health
- It has shown that self-affirmation can improve your physical and emotional health.
- Can help to increase exercises.
- Positive impact on sleep
- Can decrease stress and increase well being
- Help you to maintain a positive self-view
- Improve academic performance.
- Topic 3: Practice self-affirmation
- Start by teaching your children to learn the affirmations themselves.
- You are able to help your children in affirming themselves by looking directly at the daily or weekly and affirming them with positive statements.
- Teaching them to notice they are having a negative thought.
- Make it visual.
- Create a board and have them help you write positive qualities or completing a goal.
- Explore “what ifs” at storytime
- Storytime is a bonding time that happens within a family
- This is also a time your children are able to reflect and learn.
- Recap:
- Why is self-affirmation.
- Benefits of self-affirmation
- Practice self-affirmation
- Call to action: I challenge you to create a visual with your children on a few positive affirmations. You can share them at @stackedintent. For yourself go download the 30-day self-affirmation challenge and for thirty days practice the habit of daily incorporating one of the squares into finding the best way to show yourself affirmation to create positive routines in your brain. (https://www.stackedintent.com/30dayyourselfaffirmationchallenge )
