Encouraging Kindness and Confidence
1/11/2024 | 1m 29sVideo has Closed Captions
A mom shares how she helps her kids build self-confidence an encourages them to be kind.
In this video, a mom shares how she encourages her three boys to be kind to themselves and to each other and how she helps them develop self-confidence.
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Encouraging Kindness and Confidence
1/11/2024 | 1m 29sVideo has Closed Captions
In this video, a mom shares how she encourages her three boys to be kind to themselves and to each other and how she helps them develop self-confidence.
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My name is Mariely.
My husband, Camilo, and I have three kids: Maxwell and Sebastian, who are seven, and Mateo, who's five.
It's really important to me as a mom to help my kids build their self-esteem and confidence and be able to appreciate themselves and like themselves at a very early age.
I think it's important for my kids to reflect on a daily basis the things that they're grateful for and things that they're proud of.
I think as humans, we're looking for external validation, and it's really important to me as a parent that validation comes from inside.
- Wow, I love it.
- I'm really working on having my kids value their inner voice.
It's important to me that my kids tell me that they feel proud of themselves, and then I piggyback on that and tell them that I'm proud of them, too.
- Surprised.
- You were surprised?
- And proud.
- And proud - Wow, that's awesome.
- I like to ask my kids open-ended questions so that they can express themselves freely.
Can you tell me more about it?
- [Sebastian] It's a meteor crashing into Earth.
- [Mariely] Allowing my kids to teach me something is also empowering for them.
I encourage my kids to be kind to each other.
It's really important that they have a healthy relationship and that starts by how they treat one another.
And also I encourage them to be kind to themselves.
Practicing kindness will help them with all relationships and will make them better human beings.
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