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October 24, 2010

How to Improve Your Self Esteem

Filed under: Teen Inspiration — Tags: improving your confidence, improving your self esteem, parenting teens, teen confidence, teen self esteem — admin @ 7:45 pm

The love we feel for ourselves and generally how we feel about ourselves has a great influence on our overall happiness and our ability to function in a relationship. If we have confidence we are more likely to achieve something. Generally, self confidence is needed for us, of course being over confident can lead to bad things, but self esteem help us accept who we are and helps us live our life the way we’re supposed to.

Improving self esteem can be hard for some, but anyone can do it with some help. The first step in improving your self esteem is to think better of yourself. Yeah it can be hard, especially if you feel depressed, but if you focus on your shortcomings and underachievement’s you will never achieve anything good, and we all want to achieve something.

A challenge I used to do is write 10 things I enjoy in life each day, things that make me happy, things about myself that I like. That can greatly boost your confidence and your self esteem.

One thing that will also help you feel better about yourself is to have realistic goals. Aim for real things, aim to accomplish something, not to achieve perfection. If we set our goals too high we are bound to fail sooner or later. So setting realistic goals will help us achieve them and it will boost our confidence.

Another thing you need to focus is how you deal with failures. Don’t let them get you down; a failure is a place to learn. Mistakes can be your opportunities. If you make a mistake once you can learn and make sure that it doesn’t happen again.

Generally trying new things and experiment is a good thing to start with. It can be scary at first if you are not used to that sort of thing but you never know what you might like until you try. Developing a skill or finding something that fulfills you will not fall out of the sky, you have to work for it.

Of course it’s always good to do a reality check. Some things can be changed, some can’t. Learn how to recognize reality as we already said. Trying to change the impossible will not improve your confidence.

Exercise, have fun, go out, socialize, do anything that feels good. Jog or walk in the park, do yoga, read books, start a blog, write a poem, grow flowers, do anything that makes you feel better about yourself.

Self esteem is important to all of us, things are much easier if we think and feel good about ourselves. So if you have issues with your confidence and your self esteem these tips can help you improve it.

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October 23, 2010

5 Simple Steps That Will Help You Set Your Goals

Filed under: Teen Inspiration — Tags: goal setting for teens, parenting teens, set your goals, setting your goals, teen goal setting, teen goals — admin @ 6:49 pm

Setting goals is very important; it helps us identify what we want and how to achieve that. When we have a goal it is much easier to focus towards success as a goal is used as motivation, as a stepping stone builder and as a place to start with. Having a goal can benefit everyone, being that a small goal or a life long goal. So here are 5 simple steps that will help you set and achieve your goals.

-    The first step is about the actual goal. When you think of a goal, think of something realistic, we are not talking about fantasies here, we are talking about specific and actual realistic goals. If you have a specific goal it will be much easier to achieve it. If your goal is to get rich there are countless ways to do that, but if your goal is to get rich by inventing something that is a different story. A specific idea and a specific goal is the first step to achieving that goal. Start from a broad goal like getting rich and work towards the question how you can achieve that or how you like would to achieve that.
-    A goal usually requires some changes to be made and some habits to be set. Like if you want to lose 10 pounds by the end of the year and you plan to do that by jogging each morning. It may be hard to get up an hour earlier in the beginning, but after a few weeks your body and mind will get used to the idea and it will be much easier to work towards your goal. So stay consistent in your first weeks until the habit and routine kick in.
-    Motivating yourself by reminding yourself constantly what is your goal and why you want to achieve that goal is an essential step in reaching your goal. Motivation is the better half of success, without motivation it will be extremely hard to achieve your goal.
-    You have to set the difference between your own personal goals and the desires of others that have been forced on you as your goals. It is ok to want to please someone, but that is not your goal. Try to distinguish the difference between your parents wanting you to go to Stafford and your true wish to go to a local college near home. Think it through, but make a clear difference between what you want and what other people want for you.
-    Embrace your mistakes and learn from them. That’s right, you will have failures, you will make mistakes on the way to the end line, but the difference will be whether you learn from them or avoid them.

We all need goals in life, for some of us they are a great way to keep track of who we are and where we are going. For others they are simply a light beacon to keep us directed. But each person with a goal is a person with success in mind, and striving to have a goal is the first step and achieving a goal, any goal.

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July 8, 2010

Inspire Your Teenage Child

Filed under: Teen Inspiration — Tags: inspire teen, inspire teenage child, Inspire Your Teenage Child, parenting teens, parenting teens blog, Teen Inspiration — admin @ 6:31 pm

As a parent you sure want what is best for your child, there is no doubt about it. The best way to ensure the best for them is to motivate and inspire your teen children to realize their potential and dig for the extra greatness in them. By doing that effectively you can sit back and watch proudly how your children are succeeding in this world in whatever they do and wherever they go. Sounds nice, like a dream, but how do we motivate our teens, how do we inspire them?

The first thing that you need to do is figure out what drives your child, what motivates him, when you find that out you can easily inspire them to do great things. So the first thing you should do is get to know your child better, talking to them always helps. The moment you do realize their motives be sure to praise them and support them in their dreams and wishes, which will make a teen fly to the roof, although sometimes just for a few minutes, but in some cases it can be permanent.

A great way to inspire a teen is to believe in him. When a child sees that the parent trusts him that boosts his self confidence and that does wonders for the teen inspiration. Also, be sure to encourage your teen’s creativity, getting excited about something is the greatest form of inspiration.

You have to understand that one thing that surely destroys teen inspiration is a parent making an impossible goal for their child. Don’t be a perfectionist; don’t push your child too hard. A child is a child and it should be allowed to feel like one. A 15 year old kid that has to study for hours and hours and then do other important activities of your choosing doesn’t have a childhood and can hardly be inspired to do something on its own. A child like that will have one inspiration only, and that is to satisfy your needs because of some morbid strictness you nurture towards your child and his future. That is not a child; that is a zombie.

Sometimes letting go and allowing your child a bit more freedom is what will make the world go around for them. They have to be allowed freedom to be able to express themselves and show creativity. If you tell them what to do their entire life they will never be able to stand alone on their own two feet and they will never be inspired to do so in the first place.

In the end you as a parent have the responsibility towards your child and his future, by creating a healthy environment for your child’s development and so called brain activity your child will be on its way to a better future thinking with his own head. In the end that is what we all want for our kids, to show independence together with responsibility, the best combination in the world.

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October 6, 2009

The Teen’s Brain

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Today’s teenagers have been stereotyped as adventurous and harebrained individuals. They are generally fond of experimenting with things until they get in touch with drugs, sex, guns, alcohol among others. According to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention figures, 16,000 young adults die each year from unintentional injuries and accidents. The most common justification for teenagers’ care-free attitude is that their brains just aren’t developed enough to know better. However, recent research shows that in some cases the fact is just the opposite, the brain matures not too slowly but perhaps, too quickly.

According to a psychiatrist, an adolescent who engages in more dangerous activities have white-matter pathways that seem to be more mature than those of risk-averse youths. White-matter is the brain’s wiring, the neutral pathways that connect the various gray-matter regions of the cerebrum that are independent of one another. Having a mature white-matter is necessary because it allows faster brain processing speed. Nerve impulses also travel faster in mature white-matter. Experiments also reveal that the more mature the look of the brain, the more adventurous the teenager tended to be.
Another possible explanation is that some teenagers whose brains develop more rapidly than others become uncomfortable and a little confused owing to the gap between their biological capabilities and the social norms they must follow as kids. Precocious development of these neural tracts may make some adolescents more susceptible to engage in behaviors that society considers too adult in nature for their chronological age. It is also a common notion that teens make dumb decisions because their brains are immature. In other words, having a more mature brain may actually motivate some teens to try out new and potentially harmful experiences.
For now, these theories are mere speculation, and the researchers concede that the interaction of white and gray matter is so complex that hard conclusions remain elusive. The results of the study are relatively bare and by no means conclusive. The human brain is so intricate in nature, and one has to consider the fact that there are other factors that come into play such as the environment and certain genetic predispositions that are equally complex to study.

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December 12, 2008

Be there when your child needs you

Filed under: behavior problems,Parent Support Groups,parenting teens,teen behaviors,Teen Depression,Teen Health,Teen Help,Teen Inspiration,teen safety,Uncategorized — admin @ 3:30 am

Once you have confirmed that your child is a troubled teen, what is the next step you should take? It is important to accept the fact that you might not be able to help your child without professional help.

Try considering the following measures:
1. Consult your teenager’s doctor –The first measure is to get a physical check up done in order to detect if there are any physical problems connected to health. Get an appointment with the doctor immediately, without delay. Hormonal changes in the body may be the main reason for all problems. Thus consulting the doctor is utmost important.
2. Consult the guidance counselor at school – Though she might not be in a position to provide the child a one-on-one counseling service, she can be of great help by telling you about the attitude and the troubling behavior of the child that the teachers and the other staff members might have taken note of. This can be of great help in finding out the child’s moods and behavior when away from home.
3. Consult a professional counselor and look for proper counseling-If you don’t know whom to approach and whom to contact, consult your pediatrician or your school’s counselor to help in contacting and providing names of recommended counselors and psychiatrists.
4. Treatment and curing centers – The counselor, therapist or psychiatrist that you may consult may feel that your teenager is too troubled and her behavior is too troubling to treat as an outpatient. In such a situation you will have to commit your teen in a treatment center for a time period suggested by the doctors and consultants in the centre.
5. Communicate – Communicating with your child may be very difficult at this phase of their life, you need to make an intensive and determined effort to keep the lines of communication open as much as possible. This will help them to converse without hesitation. You should encourage more time to be spending with family. Go out with them. Give them your time. Show that you care. Show them that you are there beside them to love and support them. Encourage them to invite their friends for lunch or dinner. Search for new hobbies that you and your child can enjoy together.
Professional help and good communication can help your teen in this phase of life. Being a parent, you need to understand your child and give them all the love, care and support.

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