6 ways to develop your child’s self-esteem without encouraging narcissism

CLEANING UP YOUR MENTAL MESS with Dr. Caroline Leaf

Dr. Caroline Leaf

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.6 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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SHOW DESCRIPTION: In this I talk about 6 ways to develop your child’s self-esteem without encouraging egotism or breeding narcissistic attitudes. As parents and guardians, we know that it is important to praise and compliment our children, especially when celebrating their achievements. However, we also need to avoid praising our children too much, which may encourage vanity and narcissistic-like behaviors.

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EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:

4:20 The difference between building self-esteem & encouraging narcissism

10:35 Why we as parents need to make time for ourselves as well

11:08 How we praise are kids is key to building healthy self-esteem

19:07 Why we need to let our children make mistakes & learn from their failures

22:40 How harsh criticism can impact your child’s self-esteem

31:48 Why we need to help our children see the value in their mistakes

32:35 How team-building helps children develop healthy self-esteem

35:15 The connection between mind management, self-regulation & self-esteem

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Dr Caroline Leif and welcome to my podcast, Cleaning Up the Mental Mace.
0:10.2	Well in today's podcast I'm going to be talking about six ways to develop your child's
0:16.0	self-esteem but not breed narcissism.
0:23.4	We hear just so much about narcissism all over the place and I think it's really important
0:28.1	that we as parents recognise that we can actually buy the kinds of things that we say and
0:33.6	how we bring our children up, we can unintentionally breed narcissism when we try to build their
0:38.9	self-esteem.
0:40.2	So I want to try and unpack six ways that we can as parents make sure that we are developing
0:45.4	a child's self-esteem but not breeding narcissism.
0:49.2	But before we begin I want to talk to you about my new book coming out on August 8th called
0:55.6	How to help your child clean up their mental mess, a guy to building resilience and managing
1:00.3	mental health and boy am I excited about this.
1:03.3	This is honestly the product of the 38 years of being in this field.
1:07.5	When I practice clinically I had so many young patients from the age of two all the way
1:12.3	through all ages but my youngest were two and three years of age.
1:15.6	I'm a mother of four, my children are all adults now and I tell you this is full with
1:20.9	not only my own personal experience as a parent but also all my clinical experience plus
1:27.7	clinical research.
1:29.2	It's simple, it's easy to use, it's what you've been asking me for.
1:33.8	How do I help my child manage anxiety, depression, deal with trauma, deal with bullying,
1:38.9	deal with those social things that can happen, build their identity, all these things that
1:44.0	are so hard as parents, you need a parent guilt, how to help yourself to help your child.
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