20 Ways to Build your Daughter’s Self-Esteem:
- Give her unconditional love and acceptance
- Respect her
- Model and enforce boundaries
- Work on your own self-esteem
- Have high but reasonable expectations
- Encourage problem solving
- Encourage your daughter to recognize her feelings
- Maintain appropriate physical contact
- Encourage and discuss your daughter’s goals and dreams
- Look into her eyes (show her you love her)
- Make positive comments to others
- Make positive comments to her just because
- Model a balanced life and discuss its importance
- Discuss the difference between self-esteem, self confidence, self-image and self-concept
- Schedule a mother/daughter and/or a father/daughter night out
- Each night spend 15-30 minutes with each child
- Find an opportunity for her to teach you something
- Foster her internal feedback system
- Support her opinions and decisions whenever possible
- Encourage extracurricular activities. (e.g. sports, music, Girls scouts)