Building Confidence & Eliminating Anxiety

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"You get up at that podium to give your speech and you look like there is a bear in the room about to eat you. I don't see a bear anywhere, so stop freaking out."

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--- University Public Speaking Professor

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Did you know that your brain has the same chemical response to rejection from other people as it does to sustaining a major physical injury? No wonder it's so easy to feel extremely stressed over seemingly harmless tasks or situations. How do we help our children overcome these hurdles and grow into successful, mature adults?

A lot of parents avoid putting their kids in situations that make them anxious or uncomfortable, because your child's discomfort makes you anxious. This approach sets them up to be anxious adults. Kids don't know what is best for them, and need your guidance. Letting a child choose to avoid new, different or stressful situations re-affirms to the kid that he or she CAN'T handle things and can runaway from struggles and problems. 

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Teaching kids how to deal with discomfort, struggle and even fail is the most important lesson you can give. It makes people Tenacious and Humble. It helps focus on self-improvement instead of the simplicity of success and failure.