As we already saw in other articles such as "How to promote self-esteem in children", self-esteem is the foundation for children to have good emotional health. In childhood is when our self-esteem and self-concept are gestated, so it is very important to promote self-esteem in children to avoid future problems. As children learn very well through play, we suggest 7 games to improve self-esteem in children. They are very simple and you can do them at home.
What do you get with these games?
With these games we will get children to develop their self-esteem, working skills such as confidence, security, independence, self-worth, positivity, self-improvement and social skills.
Our self-esteem will largely define our success in what we set out to do and our attitude towards life. How we face adversities and how we learn from them. That is why it is so important to work on self-esteem in children, since we will be educating healthy and happy future adults.
Self Portrait
They love to draw. Through drawing we can work on building a positive and healthy self-image. We will ask you to draw yourself, and tell us what they are like, what their positive qualities are, what they like the most about themselves ...
Collage
With a few magazines, ask your son or daughter to cut out the words they think define it. On a cardboard paste a photo of himself and around the positive words. Put it in a visible place so that you can always see it and receive positive encouragement.
I could
This game can be played at night before sleeping. Shall say the achievements you have made during the day however small they may seem. This improve your optimism, reinforce your successes and strengthen your self-esteem.
Statues
For this game we will need music. While the song is playing the children must dance. When the music stops the children too they should stand up and show some basic emotion (anger, sadness, fear, surprise, disgust or joy). This will help them express their emotions in front of others without fear.
Praise game
The child sits in a chair and the other participants (other children or family members) approach him until a designated person says STOP. At that moment they should stop where they are and say a positive quality of the child.
Another version is that the participants sit in a circle and write on a piece of paper how they would define the person in front of them anonymously. All the papers are put in a box and they are chosen at random. The game consists of reading the paper aloud and trying to find out who wrote it and who it describes.
Now you
After watching a movie or read a story ask him to tell you his opinion, which is what you have learned or what you have noticed. This way you will know how to detect the type of thinking towards himself and towards others that your child has. It will work its critical and analytical part. This way you can work with the negative verbalizations that you have to improve them.
Letter to oneself
Ask him to write a letter to himself, telling yourself the things you have done in the last year, how you have felt, what emotions you have experienced and what your fears have been. This will improve your emotional expression, you will be more open with your emotions and in the way you deal with them. You can save them and show them to him as he grows older so that he can see how he has evolved.
There are more games that you can play both at home and at school. You can also modify the classic games to work on emotions, both to be able to express them and to interpret those of others. Emotional intelligence is also very important for a good development of self-esteem.
Because remember ... there is no greater investment in the future than your child's self-esteem.