How Parents Should React to Their Child's Mistakes: Useful Tips
As much as we would like to avoid them, mistakes are an inevitable part of our lives, and especially many of them occur during childhood.
Instead of viewing them as something negative, we suggest treating mistakes as necessary stages in the process of growth and development, because mistakes give children the opportunity to explore the world and themselves, to learn about their strengths and capabilities.
We invite you to talk about what the correct parental reaction to a child’s mistakes should be.
First, focus your attention not on the mistakes, but on what the child is doing well, and especially on progress (that is, on what he couldn’t do before, but now does well).
Secondly, never compare your own child with other children, including brothers or sisters.
This way you will only achieve that your son or daughter will have lower self-esteem, develop complexes, and will perceive mistakes extremely painfully.
Third, if you are about to say something like "I told you so," it is better to just remain silent.
Allow your child to make mistakes and learn from them, gaining the necessary life experience - perhaps this will allow him to avoid bigger failures in the future.
Previously, we talked about what to do if a child is afraid of the dentist .
