1.1 Explain The Importance Of Supporting A Child's Self-Esteem

Supporting a child’s or young person’s self-esteem has far-reaching benefits as it will help them lead better, productive adult lives. Children with low self-esteem can feel worthless, withdrawn and develop mental issues. Therefore, responsible adults, parents, carers, healthcare professionals have a duty to help children and young people develop their self-esteem, confidence and their feeling of self-worth. This can be done in a number of ways, including:
Praise and encouragement is important from a very young age as it helps the child feel they have achieved something and will encourage them to achieve more
Provide support and positive guidance when the child or young person has done something wrong. Letting a child know it is okay to make
Using techniques to make the goals more achievable will boost self-confidence talk positively when around children and young people - do not let them hear any negativity or personal thoughts about others as this may help them form wrong opinions about others. Always develop balanced conversations to allow their own thoughts to develop, aswell as their conversational skills and give them the tools and skills to seek information that will help them form their own opinions inclusion of children from different backgrounds help children and young people understand equality and diversity. Celebration of differences in culture, religion and races provides children and young people with knowledge and understanding and can provide them with the necessary skills and tools to enable them to communicate with people from a wide variety of backgrounds. This helps children to feel included and will increase their feeling of