Self Esteem In Child - Adolescent Self Esteem

By Leeanne Utiger
Self esteem and maintaining an adequate level of self esteem is important for anyone. Children to adolescents, and through to adults. Self esteem is what keeps us motivated to get through our every day activities. If we in fact have low self esteem, we simply will not be able to function properly. This can be said for children and also adolescents. In this article I am going to talk abut self esteem in both a child and an adolescent.

Both for children and adolescents alike, self esteem is what helps them both to function properly and adequately in all aspects of their life. Be this self be needed for socializing with their friends, out and about, at home or even in the school yard and school classroom.

Both for a child and an adolescent having a suitable level of self esteem will help perform better with their education requirements and will assist them to achieve higher grades and meet the standards of work required in the education field of their life.

Child Self Esteem:
A child needs self esteem to feel they are liked, loved, cherished and safe. Self esteem is very important for a child to progress through from childhood to becoming an adolescent. If a child suffers from low self esteem in his or her early years, it is more than likely that as they grow into being an adolescent they will take their low self esteem levels with them. This could therefore cause further more advance problems for them. For a child to function successfully in all aspects of their life their self esteem levels need to be kept up. You can help with this as a parent or a teacher. Praise the child when they do something well and even when they behave in an appropriate manner, also compliment them, make them feel a sense of achievement. This will give the child good self esteem and will therefore more than likely promote further good behavior, and work well done. You can even give your child some small responsibility around the house, even if it is simply drying the dishes. Something as simple as this will give the child a sense of success, and will in hindsight give them self esteem.

Adolescent Self Esteem:
It is extremely important that all adolescents have a good level of self esteem. Adolescent years are very hard and important years to get through. Adolescents will find their bodies go through changes and what they learn can affect their adult life. So in saying this, they have a lot to deal with and a lot of well thought out choices to be made. For this adolescent period of their life, to be able to give thought to goals and a possible future, an adolescent needs to have the correct level of self esteem to function adequately and do their best in all areas, especially their education and in the social skills department. Adolescents need to know how to react and interact in a social environment. Adolescents are really preparing themselves for higher social aspects and situations, therefore to achieve success in preparation for this, they must keep their levels of self esteem maintained at an adequate level. If an adolescent has low self esteem, they will not have the ability to learn adequately for their future, and they will in no way learn what they require to learn regarding social skills. Both of these things are very important to learn as an adolescent. If an adolescent suffers low self esteem, something needs to be done about it, a remedy needs to be sought as quickly as possible. So simply, the cause of the unbalanced or low self esteem needs to be looked at and corrected. An adolescent who has low self esteem can carry their low self esteem on into adulthood which will hinder any progress they may want to make because of it. Adolescents need to be supported, and listened to. If you communicate openly with your adolescent this should keep their self esteem at a required level. And as with a younger child, give your adolescent some responsibilities. They will feel that you trust them and believe that you hold belief in their ability to be successful with what you have given them some responsibility for. This is one way of helping an adolescent maintain their self esteem.

So as you can see just from what I have gone into very brief detail about, self esteem for a child, and self esteem for an adolescent is extremely important for them both to be able to move on in aspects of their lives.

See Also:
Guides to child/adolescent self esteem

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