Hi I’m Samantha from Learning Success and we made this video to help parents build confidence in their children. There are many powerful neuroscience-based techniques that build confidence. And we want you to have them.

All parents should have these tools because children should be able to grow up confident and live up to their full potential. 

Let’s get into those strategies. You might want to grab a notebook because these strategies can change your child’s life. They are worth writing down and practicing every day. Let’s start.

We call this first strategy “What I’m Good at”

This is a two-step process

Start by  getting out a sheet of paper. Sit down with your child. Ask your child to start naming off all the things that they are good at and then write them down. These things could be anything at all. Like “I’m good at minecraft” or “I’m good at making people laugh” or “I’m good at baking cookies”.

Make sure they are written in the format “I’m good at…”

Each day you and your child can work together to add to the list.. Keep the list handy and keep building it.

Be prepared! This process might be a little surprising for you. What your child comes up with can really open your eyes. Both to problems and to gifts. We’d love to hear about your experience with this so after you do this come back and tell us about it in the comments.

The second step is to have that list handy when you need it. You’ll need it when you know your child is going to need a little extra confidence.

When it’s time for our child to do something that they are not good at, just before doing that activity, bring out the “I’m good at” List. Have your child read it and then proceed with the activity.

So, for example, if it’s time for math and they are not good at math YET. Then have them read the list just before doing math. You might even spend a few minutes talking about and visualizing the things they are good at. Then do the math.

This works because visualizing the things they are good at puts them in a more confident state. A little bit of that confident feeling will rub off on the thing that they are not confident in. The confidence neurotransmitters hang around for a bit and get applied to the thing that they are not confident in. Over time, and as skills build, they will become confident in the new thing. Then you can add that thing to the list.

You help your child bring up a confident feeling.  That confidence will begin to get attached to the new thing. It’s a useful quirk of the brain. Try it out and let us know how it goes.