Won't you teach your children music? Make assertive
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You will teach your children music
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Train them to interact with a group of people: You can teach your child how to meet a group of people. Often, children (and even adults) join a group of strangers with limited eye contact and tend to keep conversation to the minimum.
Consider how much more relaxed and comfortable people would be if your child enters a random group in a more engaging way. What if you could teach your child to approach a new group this way from young?
Parents can arrange group play dates to teach their children the art of engaging with a group of peers. Or you could suggest the idea to your child’s teacher to see if they’d be interested in such types of group activities at school.
“It can take time to practise assertiveness, but persistence pays off! Help them understand that they need to stand up for what’s right and teach them the wisdom to know when it’s better to simply let it go.”
#5. Try role-playing exercises: Role-playing activities can also be fun. You can act out different scenarios with your child in which they would need to be assertive. Traits that you can teach your child include the following:
* A confident posture: For your child to be able to feel more confident, their posture is a good place to start. A positive posture is an upright body with a relaxed facial expression.
* Listening before speaking.
* Speaking their mind: Two skills are handy when you teaching youngsters to “speak their mind”. First, your child needs to learn how to say yes or no in a polite manner. Secondly, they need to learn when to speak up. For example, your child needs to know that it’s all right to express the way they feel. If they are uncomfortable with a situation, they have to learn to say, “I’m not comfortable doing this or playing this game.” Teaching a child to effectively avoid being bullied is an asset that will stand them in good stead in the future.
#6. Teach them relaxation techniques and self-calming exercises: You can also use relaxation techniques to teach your child to be more assertive. Highlight a few simple self-calming techniques to junior to help them deal with any strong negative feelings.
Discuss with your child how all the parties involved in a bullying situation could possibly feel. Talk about emotions like anger, sadness, confusion, embarrassment and fear. Ask your child to think about what they would normally want to do in such a situation. Also have them consider what the other person would want to do or how they would react.
Then help your child understand that things like yelling, crying, hitting things or making the other person feel bad will not solve the issue.
The next step is to encourage your child to describe things that they could do in the scenario to keep calm. For example, they can:
* Take a deep breath and count to 10.
* Relax your face and body.
* Take a sip of water.
* Repeat a soothing phrase like “I can stay calm”.
* Go to someone you can trust.
Again, role-playing various scenarios is a great way to for your youngster to harness these skills.
Raise an assertive child from the start
Bring up your child to be assertive from a young age ― it can take time to practise assertiveness, but persistence pays off! Help them understand that they need to stand up for what’s right and teach them the wisdom to know when it’s better to simply let it go.
Dr Lisa Lim Su Li is the clinical director and senior speech language pathologist at The Speech Practice.