What Impacts a Child's Self Esteem

The first in the line of articles for learning Disability Awareness by Laks of Emotionally HighStrung. Her article is on the topic --

Learning Disabilities and it's impact on a child's self esteem

"A child's self esteem is related to the degree of success experienced by the child. It can be as simple as learning to tie his shoe-lace or as hard as solving complex math problems, depending on the child's age. Each child has his/her own pace at which he/she learns. As a parent we need to understand this very clearly and try not to push the child to achieve things the child is not yet ready to. If the child finds himself not doing things his parents are expecting him to, he translates that as a failure and it is devastating for the child. This translation of success/failure related to self esteem is an internal process. The child will stop believing in himself due to any lack of success he's having at doing things and his self esteem takes a huge blow."

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