Reminisce and Reflect with me.

September nineteen ninety-something and the excitement of starting a school year trumps anything this month! 

Shopping for school supplies and picking out what to wear.  The new teachers and classmates.  Getting ready for the “first day of school” photo is a must.  Documenting the occasion and making memories.

Learning your ABC’s and 123’s is crucial for survival in this literate and calculating world we live in!  School is cool in our family!

One daughter recently discussed her feelings about starting Kindergarten with Mom and Dad as the time grew nearer.  She is a little nervous and apprehensive yet excited too.  She said that “she hoped that her teacher wouldn’t get mad if she couldn’t do everything right at school.“

I tried to assure her that as long as she was doing her best, Mom and Dad would be happy with her and the teacher should be too.  I emphasized that school is suppose to teach you how to do things and that she shouldn’t be worried!

That same daughter has also been proudly announcing to everyone that she is going to be in Mommy’s class.  Going to school with Mom is something unusual yet special that my kids are experiencing.  A popular saying “All I really need to know I learned in Kindergarten” has immense meaning and importance now.  My job description, roles and responsibilities have morphed exponentially!

Adjusting to mom being their teacher has been different for each child.  One embraced the role of high achieving model student and rarely slipped out of character.

Another hung on to presumed special privileges, like wanting to sit on my lap during story-time or stripping down to her undershirt like she would at home to avoid getting hot during our Mousercizing exercise time!

The last one was friendly, funny, always content to play and learn despite the fact unbeknownst to teacher/mom that she really needed glasses to see!

Remembering that my children are individuals and have their own strengths and weaknesses has been so important.  Ensuring that my  students, including my own kids, always feel secure and confident to learn within my classroom is my goal.  As a parent and an educator it has always been my job to teach.  Those early years are very formative and impressionable times for children. 

I feel fortunate that I am able to interact and make connections with my girls in such a remarkable way.  When they grow up, hopefully my influence and teaching will continue to help them navigate through life.  “All you really need to know is not learned in Kindergarten.”  For most of us the learning never stops. 

Hindsight Reflection #1  Kids do worry about things from a young age and some never stop worrying.

Hindsight Reflection #2   How many children in classrooms have had those same thoughts and concerns about measuring up?  Self-doubt is always counterproductive.

Hindsight Reflection #3  All the educational experiences, they had along the way,  helped to shape the adults that they are today. 

Thank you for joining me!

Karen

If you want to read more quotes or essays by Robert Fulghum.

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten.  Penquin Random House Canada. Copyright 1986.

 

 

 

It’s a BIG world out there!  Our kids must learn to navigate through it on their own.  

Unfortunately stories of misguided or victimized youth seem to abound in society.  Parents are asking themselves “What if my child does not make good decisions in life?”   I first posted on this topic one year ago after twelve Thai soccer teammates followed their coach deep into an unsafe cave.  The recent heartbreaking overdose bullying incident of a teen boy in BC, that was posted to social media sites, makes me very sad and has rekindled my concerns about the environment that children are growing up in today.

What makes some children and young adult become influenced and led astray?  When faced with uncertainty, peer pressure and perhaps a charming or fascinating leader, what will they do?  What causes them to make poor choices despite all the good nurturing and teaching they have received.

As children grow up and experience life most parents observe that a son or daughter has a tendency towards being a leader or a follower.  They can actually be a mixture of both and these traits are influenced by both genetics and the environment.  Experts advice parents to not be judgmental towards either personality style because we need both leaders and followers in our families, schools, workplaces and communities.

Good followers support and help a leader when he or she is doing the right thing and have the courage to stand up to that leader when they are headed in the wrong direction or doing something that is not right.  Sometimes it will take the confidence, courage and conviction, learned early in life from nurturing parents, for children and teens to be able to say  “No”!  Ironically, these are also essential qualities of good leadership.

 

Embracing the team ethic of working together is very important.  Yet, at the same time paying attention, assessing the situation, thinking for themselves and communicating when a poor choice is being made is necessary and shows emerging independent critical thinking skills.

So, what can parents do?

Consider your own leadership style within your family and around your home.  As a significant role model in children’s lives parents need to model both good leadership and follower behaviors.  An overly dominant parent is not fostering assertiveness in their son or daughter.  A family that encourages teamwork is teaching vital life skills.

Teach your children to be observant and aware. Provide them with a variety of experiences so that they can learn and grow.  Show them how decisions are made and then let them practice, practice, practice!  Knowledgeable children who have had exposure to life situations and opportunities to solve problems when they are young will grow up to be better critical thinkers. 

Encourage healthy exploration and risk taking that will develop independence and build self-esteem.  Practicing invaluable life skills will increase a child’s self-confidence and teach them about integrity, responsibility and trust.  Children need to believe in their own abilities, thoughts, feelings, and opinions so that they will not just follow what others say or do.

Enduring relationships are so important.  Be patient and positive.  Stay connected and keep communicating with your child.  Ask lots of questions that get kids thinking on their own and allow you to stay informed about their school and social life.  Trust your instincts.  If you sense that something is wrong act and advocate for your child’s physical and mental well-being.

By accumulating experiences that promote good health, strength, independence and self-esteem children can develop gradually by increments the ability to understand the consequences of their choices and behaviors.  So when they are faced with new situations, uncertainty or peer pressure parents can feel more confident that their son or daughter will make appropriate and safe decisions as they navigate through this BIG world we live in.

 

Thank you for joining me.

Karen

 

 

Reminisce and Reflect with me.

A quick READ.

Kids, water and summer equals fun!  Swimming lessons were a big success in nineteen-ninety-something.  You can lead a horse to water.  Fortunately, we did not have to make our kids go in!   Don’t go chasing Waterfalls by TLC was popular on the air waves.  We were racing off to waterparks, waterslides, and our favorite YMCA pool. 

Beanie Babies were the new craze that year, but our kids had their eyes set on climbing the swimming ladder of success via buoyant animals like otters, seals and dolphins.

Navigating countless crowded, steamy, slippery, chlorine infused  communal showers and change rooms was part of each child’s journey.

Trying to stay dry straddling benches and stuffing lockers while fully clothed was a challenge.  Carrying wet towels, multiple backpacks and belongings while trying not to think about the athlete’s foot fungus and pink eye germs below you was a parent’s nightmare. 

And then you sit and wait.  No scrolling through your phone!  What phone!  The World Wide Web has only just released browsers making the internet accessible at home on your computer if you have one.  Instead you read your paperback, babysit siblings, strike up a conversation with the parent next to you, or maybe just enjoy watching your little ones swimming, splashing and diving. Then like a machine your wash, rinse, dry and repeat cycle continues.

Despite the possible shame and disappointment of being stuck at dolphin and never making it to the Starfish levels.  I have signed the kids up for a second set of swimming  lessons this summer.

 

Following the enthusiasm currents and riding the waves of fun.  Your kids are being supervised by someone else for 45 minutes and learning a life skill at the same time.  Enjoy it while you can!

Hindsight Reflection #1    Isn’t it nice that some nurturing places like the Y still exist.  

Hindsight Reflection #2  There will be many more ladders of success for kids to climb.  And many more places for parents to become masters of waiting and watching. 

Hindsight Reflection #3  Life is going to be full of sink or swim moments.  I know that my kids learned how to stay afloat many years ago!

   

 

 

Thank you for joining me.

Karen

    

 

Reminisce and Reflect with me.  

A quick READ.

Playing in the park in nineteen-ninety-something. 101 Dalmations, with scary haired Cruella De Vil, was a family favorite.  We had our favorite spots for summertime play.  I had just unveiled my own frightening retro 80’s curly hair perm.  Climbing on monkey bars and jungle gyms, building castles in the sand, sliding down long, hot, slippery slides and riding the old rocking horses.  Just having fun together.

 

Rejuvenation of the human spirit, heart, mind and body being part of this beautiful summer day feeling good and watching my little ones having so much fun playing.  Then we had a picnic.

The girls revealed with kid’s brutal honesty, telling me many times and in many ways, that they hated my curly hair.  At bedtime that night they wanted to know if my hair would be gone by morning!  As perms go NO….. I’m afraid they had to get use to the new curly me.

Hindsight Reflection #1   Children learn so much through play.  Stand back and let them do what comes naturally.  Safety standards have since taken many of those playground favorites away even though countless kids successfully had fun on them! Be safe but let them imagine and explore.

Hindsight Reflection #2  Working parents will always cherish those ordinary everyday moments they spend with their children and wish that they had many more.  

Hindsight Reflection #3  Honesty is always the best policy.  Kids tell it like it is.  Listen to them.  They haven’t learned to filter yet.  That curly hair was never a good look on me!

Thank you for joining me.

Karen

  

 

How could a 9-year-old child die by suicide?  That is the question many parents were asking themselves when headlines reporting the death of a young Syrian girl surfaced earlier this year in Alberta.  Having raised three children of my own and having taught many children including ESL immigrant students just like this Syrian girl I found this tragedy alarming.

I have written previously about recognizing the signs of mental health issues and illnesses in children.  This was a very sad and extreme example of why it is so important.  Although suicide has not touched my own family directly, I am reminded of a student that I taught in elementary school many years ago who during her adolescent high school years attempted suicide.  How did that happy child that I knew get to such a deep dark place in her young life?

Most parents know and accept that they are going to be given the responsibility and lead role regarding  their children’s health and well-being.  They enroll their kids in good schools.  Love and care for them.  Give them a variety of experiences.  Sign them up for sports activities.  Provide them with medical, dental and vision care.  Save for their future perhaps post-secondary education.  Perhaps spend a fortune on braces and a litany of other things.  Read together.  Give them hugs and jump through hoops for them.

Parents can see how all that is contributing to the growth and development of their son or daughter throughout childhood and adolescence.  But, how are they really feeling and how are they coping with daily life?  Don’t forget to advocate as well for good mental health!  This is what parents cannot see as easily.  It may be hidden within, camouflaged, misinterpreted or misunderstood even by those people closest to them.

Parents and teachers need to be sensitive to and aware of “cries for help” from the young people around them.  Suicide is never a random act.  Look closely when deep dark feelings settle in because the risk factors and warning signs will be there.

Children or adolescents who consider or attempt suicide desperately want their life to change and get better but can’t find a way to cope with their problems and feelings of despair.

Sadly, at this young age many children do not yet have a realistic or accurate understanding of death.  This 9-year old girl may have wanted to stop the pain and gain more control in her life.  She may have wanted attention and empathy from significant people around her but may not have expected to really die.

Children who have been through life-changing events or are grieving a loss have a greater risk for mental illness.  It is not a stretch to predict that many immigrant or refugee children entering our school systems are struggling to fit into an unfamiliar sometimes not very accepting new culture.  They are learning a new language and some may have come from traumatic environments.  At the same time they are missing their home, family, friends and everything that was familiar to them.  This surely is a recipe for stress that may challenge their self-esteem, resilence and positive thinking.

Environmental factors, life events and specific character traits can make children and adolescents more susceptible to mental health and wellness issues.  Living in a dysfunctional family with conflict and lack of support are obviously huge sources of anxiety and distress.

The inherent nature and prevalence of ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) and FAS (Fetal Alcohol Syndrome) with the characteristic impulsivity and inability to learn or clearly understand the consequences of choices or behaviors is a concern when considering the state of mind and mental health of many young people.  

Gender identity issues make LGBTQ youth more at risk. A history of self-harming behavior or substance abuse increases that risk.  Indigenous adolescents are also over represented in deaths by suicide.

When children or adolescents are feeling that they are not fitting in or if they have become a victim of bullying or cyberbullying this can create an overwhelming cycle of self-doubt and despair.  Risk factors and causes can compound together to intensify the deep dark feelings of hopelessness and loneliness. 

Mental illnesses like anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, eating and conduct disorders carry a higher risk for suicide. The word disorder speaks for itself, when things in life get out of control and emotions get mixed up it makes it harder to think rationally and positively.  Adults or children in this situation may struggle to solve problems, make decisions and take appropriate actions.

 

 

Look closely because early symptoms of mental health disorders may be starting to emerge in a child’s life making it harder for them to function at home and school.  Some signs may be subtle or misinterpreted. Adolescents especially may find it easier to express their feelings on social media.  This is where they can search out information about suicide and be influenced by others in chat rooms.

So, what can parents do if they believe that their child is suffering from serious mental distress, pain and unhappiness that could lead to self-harm?  Immediatley seek out help from mental health professionals who can assess the immediacy of the danger risk for their son or daughter.  Doctors and counsellors can take action and provide the appropriate intervention.  A longer-term treatment plan can be initiated that will likely include medication and therapy.

Uncovering and understanding the factors that are causing a child or adolescent to have such deep dark feelings and potential suicidal thoughts and behaviors is crucial. Resolving issues and helping them  to regain a more positive perspective on life along with strengthening their resiliency and coping skills is the goal of any intervention.

Communication is so important when dealing with all children.  Listen supportively and non-judgmentally.  Tell your child that help is available and that things will get better.  Try to avoid leaving them alone.  Express your concerns about their health and safety but be honest about confidentiality issues because you will need to seek out additional help for your child.

Ultimately a child needs to feel loved, understood, supported, appreciated and valued.  That is a parent’s role and responsibility.  This process should involve all family members and other significant people in the child’s life like teachers and friends.  Creating a safe, supportive, accepting and inclusive environment for children in the home and at school is imperative for good mental health and wellness. Don’t underestimate the role that social acceptance and peer relationships play in fostering or sabataging our sons and daughters social and emotional well-being.  Children want to feel that they belong and that they are connected to their friends, classmates and the school community.

 

 

 

We don’t have a crystal ball and can’t possibly predict all that may happen in our children’s lives.  By helping them to identify and express their feelings from a young age we can reduce the risk that deep dark feelings may persist and lead to mental health problems.  Children need to experience coping with stress and conflict in life so that they can learn from these situations how to communicate what they are feeling to others and become more resilient.

Suicide is very rare in younger children but that doesn’t mean that they are not susceptible to serious emotional upsets.We are all social creatures and for most children and adolescents distress at home and at school is linked to relationship problems with family and friends.

 If you do have a child who has a diagnosed mental health disorder monitoring and managing of this illness is going to be an important long-term responsibility to avoid serious relapses or escalations of this chronic condition.  These parents carry their own deep-down fears that they will discover one day that their child no longer wants to deal with the struggles and pain that they are experiencing, and you have not been able to prevent a possible tragic result.

How could any child die by suicide?  That is the question parents need to ask themselves.  Deep dark feelings can make any child feel vulnerable, defenseless, easily influenced, broken and at risk. 

 

 

Children who find themselves in such a dark place obviously needed help long before they reached that crisis point. When parents accept that leading role to be responsible for their children’s basic needs and good health they also need to remember to always be mindful of their mental health and well-being.  

Thank you for joining me!

Karen

If you want to read more on this topic here are some websites for you to visit.

Children and Suicide – Centre For Suicide Prevention https://www.suicideinfo.ca/resources/not-a-child/

10 Things Parents Can Do to Prevent Suicide – https://www.healthychildren.org/Enflish/health-issues/conditions/emotional-problems

Suicides Under Age 13 – https://www.cnn.com/2017/08/14/health/child-suicides/index.html

Suicide and Self Harm – Key Issues in Reducing Risk and Preventing Harm – https://mylearningspace.wlu.ca/d21/le/content/263204/viewContent/159281/view

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reminisce and Reflect with me.  A quick READ.

Family drive in nineteen-ninety-something.  Families were enjoying watching the Lion King for the first time in theatres.  Our pride rock was being challenged by something quite different.  That unpredictable, irrational, seemingly incurable, highly contagious condition called arachnophobia!  Along came a spider and sat down beside her and we had yet another child afraid of bugs!

I know that they came by it honestly.  Mother dear has been frightened many times herself.  This spider was spotted in the back seat of my car on the way home and a certain little lady went crazy with fear.  She wouldn’t sit in that seat again for days.  It became known as the infamous spider seat.  All was fine again until the following week when another spider was spotted hanging from the roof of the car on the other side of the back seat!  You guessed it the fight for the middle seat went on for years!

Hindsight Reflection #1  Life isn’t always going to be a ride in the park.  There will be bumps in the road along the way.

Hindsight Reflection #2  Exposure therapy doesn’t always work.  Some childhood fears and phobias are hard to grow out of!

Hindsight Reflection #3  Facing fears as a kid is good practice for adulthood when you learn you will have to face many kinds of spiders in life all by yourself.  But  sometimes a big emotional outburst still feels like the best response!

Thank you for joining me.

Karen

 

 

 

Reminisce and Reflect with me.  A quick READ.

Mother’s Day nineteen ninety-something.  The girls had lovely gifts for Mom.  Then we all went out to find Mom’s, throw back to her own childhood, gift for herself.  A brand new mountain bike.

After a few good rides that bike was stolen out of the backyard.  Fortunately, recovered still in one piece at the local police station!  Sadly, hung in the garage motionless for many years because life got busy and my girls just weren’t into biking.  But, the wait was worth it because nearly twenty-five years later that Mother’s Day gift and Mom really do ride in the mountains now!

Hindsight Reflection #1  Moms should always find ways to treat themselves.

Hindsight Reflection #2  Your kids may not like everything you like but they should still learn how to ride a bike!

Hindsight Reflection #3  “It’s like riding a bike you never forget how.”  Childhood passions always bring us joy and you can take off again where you left off!

 

 

Thank you for joining me.

Karen

Reminisce and Reflect with me.  A quick READ.

Continue reading “Hindsight REWIND” →

Reminisce and Reflect with me.  A quick READ.

Continue reading “Hindsight REWIND!” →

Children who have a healthy body image feel good about themselves and have more confidence and higher self-esteem.  Body image is one of the essential puzzle pieces that together form a child’s identity.  Body image is how we see ourselves and what we feel and believe about our body.  We use our body to function in so many ways!  So why not learn to appreciate and celebrate who you are during childhood?

  Children need to be taught at a young age that people come in different shapes, sizes and genders.  They need to learn that personality is an important part of being you.  They need to accept and embrace their individuality.

A healthy body image grows over time.  Ideally, we want our children to believe that who they are inside is more important than what they look like on the outside.  “Like me for who I am not what I look like!”  It sounds so simple.  It should be easy.  But, unfortunately, unconditional love and effective parenting are still not a guarantee that a son or daughter will accept and believe in themselves because so many factors can influence child development.

As children grow older, they compare themselves with other kids.  They want to feel good about how they look and what they can do.  If they feel that they are measuring up it builds up their self-esteem.  If they are not measuring up in their own eyes it can lead to problems in the future.  Having a positive body image at a young age will help children cope better with the inevitable changes their bodies will go through as they mature.  

Often children worry and fixate on things that they don’t understand or cannot control or change.  Over time being preoccupied with physical appearance and feeling uncomfortable inside their own body can take its toll on their mental and physical health and wellness.  This can lead to mental health issues and unhealthy eating habits.

 

If you have been reading my blogs, you will have recognized by now that the mental health of children is a priority in my mind and I believe that hindsight recommendations and ideas can be very valuable.  Sometimes parents do things with the best intentions in mind but without knowing the real effect it will have on their children.  Sometimes they just make mistakes because parenting is hard and nobody is perfect.

Anxiety issues, perfectionism and a prominent birthmark were some challenges that I may not have handled as well as I could have with my own children.  It took an honest little voice many years ago asking the question “mommy don’t you love me the way I am?” to convince me that some of my efforts to control or change my children were not the best way to parent and show my unconditional love.  I was really interfering with their own developmental journey and possibly harming them.  Years later I can see that even those traits or things that I considered problems at the time have all helped to create the adults that they are today.

So how can parents help?  Things are going to change whether you like it or not.  You can’t live their lives for them.  All you can do is guide them and help them to be the best that they can be.  At every stage of development, a parent can do things that will nurture their child’s body image and self-esteem.

Concentrate on building strong relationships with your children, keep the lines of communication open and reduce family stress.  There is truth in Tina Turner’s words “happiness is the greatest beauty secret”.  Encourage your child to maintain a positive attitude.

Teach them about their body.  Help them learn how to take care of their body.  Say nice things about how your children look but also encourage them to show you what they can do.  Choose your words carefully and consider the sensitivity of your children and the negative consequences your words may have on their developing body image.  Try not to draw undue attention to weight issues and instead promote healthy eating and exercise.

We know that children will be influenced by role models in their life.  Parents can have a positive or negative impact in this area based on their own attitudes towards appearance, weight, gender identity and ethnicity.  Try not to share your own negative self-esteem with your children.  Demonstrate positive thinking and help them deal with their emotional baggage but try not to share your own. 

Modeling behaviors and making unkind negative observations and comments about other people’s body size or eating habits promotes inappropriate habits.  Even facial expressions and nonverbal cues can give children confusing messages about good health and happiness.  It infers that a specific appearance is more desirable and implies that attractiveness is a more important determinant of good character than human nature and what a person can do.  Try not to pass on your own biases and negative opinions about other people.

In society there are still many gender-based expectations.  Advertising and marketing strongly promotes how girls and boys should look, behave and what they should be interested in.  Catherine-Steiner-Adair recommends complimenting children on a variety of different qualities and reminds them to consider the messages that they are giving their sons and daughters.

When parents are trying to nurture self-esteem and build confidence in their child praising them too much can do more harm than good.  Give appropriate praise that is specific and earned.  Randi Chapnik Myers suggests that constant over praise can make children think that they are perfect, or it can make them relentlessly try to be perfect all the time.  Either way this is not going to foster a healthy body image or self–esteem.  Unreliable or false praise is confusing.

Children need to discover their own unique strengths and skills.  They need to be taught that feeling special does not mean that they should feel better than other people.  Self-esteem comes from feeling loved and competent because you have gone through the process of developing skills and interacted with others.

Social and environmental pressures influence our children every day.  Technology and social media have allowed messaging to intrude so much more into the lives of this generation of children.  Parents need to understand the strong influence that social media, friends and society can have on their children.

The subtle and sometimes blatant messages portrayed in the media that thinner people are better can be very harmful.  Limiting and censoring what your children are viewing is a difficult thing to do.  Instead, try watching more things together and participating in more activities with your child so that there are opportunities for important conversations about how people are being portrayed in different roles and situations.  Try to provide both sons and daughters with more realistic perspectives about what is considered attractive.

Negative body image can be a precursor to mental health issues like anxiety, depression and eating disorders.  Other biological and genetic factors combined with personality will also contribute to the mental and physical wellness of children and their subsequent body image and self-esteem.

Consider that we are all exposed to media and online propaganda and must navigate our way through the social environment that we are exposed to and the potential negative influences found there.  Yet not all children or adults will suffer from mental health issues or eating disorders.  Siblings raised in the same family and exposed to the same environment will develop their own body images.  Children are unique and will receive and interpret these kinds of messages in different ways.

Approach and manage appearance issues and weight gain or loss carefully and sensitively with your children.  Minimize triggers associated with negative body image and focus instead on other more positive components of their identity.  Some children will have a predisposition for mental health issues that will emerge during their lifetime.  Poor body image and low self-esteem are common symptoms of mental health disorders like anxiety, depression, unhealthy dieting and eating disorders.

Love, accept and support your children the way they are!  In her article about parenting challenges, Margot Starbuck asked her 3-year old daughter, the question “If there was one thing, I could change about you, what would it be?”  The first time she asked this question her daughter replied “My hair?  My eyes?”  “No!” she said.  “Nothing.  There’s nothing I would change about you!”  Her daughter was relieved to hear this and smiled back at her mom.  This question was asked many more times over the years until Margot was convinced that her daughter understood what she was trying to teach her.  Eventually she consistently responded back was an exuberant nothing!  Blessing our child with a healthy attitude towards his or her body is part of unconditional love.

There are many  children’s stories for parents and children to read together that address this common childhood challenge of finding our true identity amongst a sea of other people.  Our body is like a friend that needs to be liked, respected and treated well and in return it will love and support you back. There may be roadblocks, changes, challenges, surprises, and unforeseen circumstances along the way for our children.  But, with your love and support having a positive attitude, a good body image, high self-esteem, and resilience will make it easier for them to navigate life, to keep their ducks in a row and celebrate the individuals that they truly are inside and out.

Thank you for joining me!

Karen

If you want to read more here are some websites for you.

https://kidshealth.org/en/parents/body-image.html

https://pickanytwo.net/raise-a-daughter-who-feels-beautiful/

https://pickanytwo.net/what-to-teach-your-daughter-about-her-weight/

https://www.parentinginottawa.ca/en/children/Body-Image-and-Self-esteem.aspx

https://www.focusonthefamily.com/parenting/parenting-challenges/modeling-a-healthy-body-image-to-your-kids

https://parenthetical.wisc.edu/a-parents-role-in-body-image/

http://www.pbs.org/parents/parenting/raising-girls/body-image-identity/raising-a-girl-with-a-positive-body-image/

https://www.psychologytoday.com – Your Child’s Self Esteem Starts With You/ Psychology Today Canada

https://www.todayspar/ent.com/family/parenting/how-to-build-your-childs-self-esteem