Building your child's self esteem w/Carol Kim

Mama Knows

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Parenting, Kids & Family

5.0 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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I want to raise my kids to be confident, kind kids. But growing up in today's world, it can be so difficult to help our kids maintain their sense of self esteem. Carol Kim dives into what we can to do raise our kids self esteem and avoid inadvertently negatively impacting their self esteem. 1. What are things I can do daily to help raise my kids self esteem? 2. How can I encourage my child to not get their self esteem from others but from within instead? 3. Can I still give my child compliments without encouraging them to seek for others' approval? 4. What ways can I help reduce any shame they might feel, say after a meltdown, and build them back up? 5. What are common ways we as parents inadvertently negatively impact our kids self esteem or confidence? Carol Kim is a licensed Marriage & Family Therapist specializing in child and play therapy. She has over a decade of clinical experience, and has practiced in the San Francisco Bay Area, Boston, and Utah. Carol is also a popular content creator, whose videos on parenting and mental health have benefited millions across the globe. You can find her content on major social networks under the handle @parenting.resilience. Prior to becoming a therapist and content creator, Carol was a broadcast journalist in Missouri and Oakland California, where her favorite part of the job was sharing the stories of underserved communities. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Self-esteem is confidence in your own worth, abilities and morals. So self-esteem encompasses beliefs about yourself. So like, I'm loved, I am worthy, and self-esteem is so important for everyone to have, especially for children to start building it at a very young
0:26.8	age. And it starts literally as babies. We can start building their self-esteem as babies, which is why I think this topic is so important for anyone listening.
0:36.6	It's not too late. You can start building up your children's self-esteem so that they can have healthy relationships, happiness, lower rates of
0:44.9	criminal behavior, academic achievement, and so much more self-esteem is
0:49.0	crucial, especially now to with the age of social media.
0:53.2	So let's dive in with Carol Kim today who's a licensed therapist and talking about self-esteem.
0:59.2	Hi Carol, I'm so excited to have you here today. I think you provide so much
1:07.8	amazing information for parents. I love what you do for families and I really wanted you to come on today to talk about kids and
1:15.2	self-esteem. So I'm excited because I feel like I have a three and a five year old and I feel like I'm still kind of navigating that.
1:24.0	I don't, you know, there's a lot of things that come up and I'm like, did I handle that correctly?
1:28.4	So I, before we dive in, I would love for you to tell us a little bit about yourself.
1:33.0	Oh yes, so I am a marriage and family therapist.
1:38.0	So I've been practicing for about 15 years now and I'm also a registered play therapist so I've also been doing
1:44.3	that for 15 years and I think a cool thing about my work experience is I did
1:50.9	get to travel around and work in several cities like in San Francisco, Boston,
1:56.1	and now I'm here in Utah.
1:57.6	And so I feel like I got a pretty good experience with a lot of different groups of people and so and right now I have my own
2:07.5	group practice here in Utah Lehi at B5 Child and Family Counseling.
2:13.2	And so, yeah, my focus has been like kids, families.
2:17.0	And I do a lot of like trauma, work, anxiety, depression,
2:22.0	and then parenting, like, and then parenting, like and also like improving parent-child
2:26.8	relationships and so I think that would be my focus are in my those things. I love that. I love you work with
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