Most children will have dips in self-esteem as they go through different stages or challenges in life. Starting a new school, moving house, changes in the family and many other factors can affect a child’s confidence, but with support from parents and other adults they usually get through this.

Some helpful tips to improve your teenager’s low self-esteem:

1. Focus on effort and accomplishments, not PERFECTION!
2. Teach your teenager how to use Positive Self-Talk.
3. Encourage your teenager to try new things.
4. Help your teen learn to set goals and then take steps to accomplish them.

How Parents Can Build Self-Esteem

1. Help your child learn to do things. At every age, there are new things for kids to learn.
2. When teaching kids how to do things, show and help them at first.
3. Praise your child, but do it wisely.
4. Be a good role model.
5. Ban harsh criticism.
6. Focus on strengths.
7. Let kids help and give.

Meditate. Meditating is a great way to turn off your mind and to keep your body and being quiet. Take 10-20 minute every morning to find a comfortable seat in a quiet room, close your eyes, and focus on your breath rising and falling from your body.

11 Ways To Talk Less And Listen More

1. Learn to control your impulse.
2. Practice not interrupting people.
3. Avoid commandeering the conversation.
4. Ask questions.
5. Shift gratification to listening.
6. Accept differences of opinion.
7. Think before you speak.
8. Work on your self-esteem.

Meditation is one productive activity that you can do while remaining silent. While not all types of meditation are silent, many are. Silent meditation techniques can help you reflect on yourself, clear your head, and also pass the time. Try taking slow, deep breaths in and out.

Ask questions that focus on the other person. Being quiet doesn’t mean not talking — it means using words succinctly, asking interesting questions, and making solid points worth talking about. So don’t tell yourself to shut up; just tell yourself to ask the right questions.

When a girl is quiet, she’s concentrating on holding in a fart. When she is loud, it is to conceal a fart. A girl is always farting or about to fart. When a girl is quite, she just made a typo. A shy girl is sometimes a quiet girl.