Raising A Confident Child

On-Demand Class · Parenting

Guide your child towards a lifetime of confidence and resilience through simple shifts in your approach to communication, stress, and adversity.

Class Description

Studies show that self-confidence is one of the most important measures of a child’s present and future success in life. Most parents “realize this, yet often find it challenging to find the right confidence-building approach. How do you nurture confidence without overconfidence? When is the right time to step in and help your child when things go south? What’s the right way to challenge your child, without putting them down? You’ll discover the answers to these questions and much more in the Raising a Confident Child program. How to encourage lifelong growth through confidence: Discover how to nurture your child’s confidence and subconscious beliefs for a lifetime of personal growth. Why children need to rescue themselves: You can be there for your child without erasing their ability to get themselves out of sticky situations. Here’s how. The secret ingredients to constructive praise: Too little praise can be harmful, but so can too much. Follow these steps to praise in a way that boosts your child’s inner strength and self-esteem. How to challenge your child: It can be tricky to point out your child’s mistakes without feeling like you’re putting them down. Use this framework to challenge in a way that builds connection and confidence. How parents (innocently) sabotage their child’s confidence: Are you making any of these all-too-common missteps? Here’s how to fix them, quickly and easily.

Sessions Overview

  1. Introduction: Introduction
  2. Revisiting Your Parenting Goal: Revisiting Your Parenting Goal
  3. The Age of Exploration: The Age of Exploration
  4. Tips for Supporting Without - Rescuing: Tips for Supporting Without - Rescuing
  5. Becoming the Scaffold: Becoming the Scaffold
  6. Building Frustration Tolerance: Building Frustration Tolerance
  7. Consequences of Rescue: Consequences of Rescue
  8. Developing Our Core Beliefs: Developing Our Core Beliefs
  9. Praise: Praise
  10. Preventing Dependency Habit: Preventing Dependency Habit

Your Instructor

Evelyn Mendal

Evelyn Mendal is a mother, co-parent, and licensed mental health counselor, focused on helping parents to parent purposefully, and with a more conscious perspective. Her fascination with early childhood development and the parent-child relationship inspired her to develop an extensive resource curriculum to help parents navigate pregnancy and early childhood. Her approach is one of connection-based caregiving with a strong foundation in attachment theory and child development. She has led live parent workshops, preschool teacher workshops, parent groups, and has worked with children, adolescents, adults, and families in her private practice. Evelyn works with parents with the goal of encouraging them to become more confident, mindful and happy, which in turn, will raise healthy, happier, and more resilient kids.

Degrees and Certifications

Licensed Mental Health Counselor MS.Ed, Mental Health Counseling Certified in Gottman's "Bringing Home Baby" Certified in Infant Mental Health Trained in Florida Association for Infant Mental Health's: "The Growing Brain from Birth to 5 Years" Trained in Trauma-Focused CBT

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