Welcome to another of our parenting Google hangouts with Beckie Whitehouse of Be Confident Coaching. Today, we are talking about praise and how and why to use it with our children.
We all like to be praised and recognised for our achievements and it is no different for young children who are often eager to please those who are constant in their lives. However, it can sometimes feel awkward to give it or we are unsure how to praise our children.
Definition: Expression of approval, commendation, or admiration.
Some of the topics we cover in our chat are:
- What is praise?
- Recognising achievements
- How to praise
- Why is it important?
Does your child look to you for approval? How do you praise them? Is it something you feel comfortable with? Please share your thoughts with us in the comments below.
Helen Neale
Helen is a mum to two, social media consultant, website editor and a qualified counsellor with experience of working with both children and adults.She is a registered member of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapists, with her own private practise. She also freelances with her local Mind organisation.Since giving up being a business analyst when juggling travel, work and kids proved too complicated, she founded KiddyCharts so she could be with her kids, use those grey cells at the same time, and supplement her counselling income.KiddyCharts has reach of over 680k across socials and the site. The site works with big family brands to help promote their services, as well as offering free resources to parents of kids under 10. She is a specialist counsellor for neurodivergent individuals and brings this expertise to her resources and the site. She is also an ADHDer herself.KiddyCharts gives 51%+ profits to charities, focused on supporting mental health and a community in TanzaniaHelen has also worked as a digital marketing consultant (IDM qualified) with various organisations, including Channel Mum, Truprint, Talk to Mums, and Micro Scooters. She loves to be creative in the brand campaigns she works on.Get in touch TODAY!
Megan
Tuesday 17th of February 2015
Hi Helen, A friend recommended your amazing site to me and I love your blog. I'm a working mum as well, although, my kids are now 22, 20 and 18! (I'm not sure where all the time went?) I'd love to tell you being a parent is a breeze is once they can do stuff on their own, but I'd be lying. We've just insured our son on the family car's insurance and I think we may have to take out a second mortgage! I've been developing a new company over the last year and would love your thoughts as a working mum. JacDo is a subscription service for young kids, similar to Graze boxes and Just Fab shoes. Every month the child receives their own box full of fun, educational activities which cover all aspects of the National Curriculum. At present the activities are bilingual English/Welsh (I work part time in Welsh medium education in Cardiff) but there will soon be English/Polish, English/French and English/Spanish and also maybe English/Urdu. I would love to send our press pack and some samples to you to see what you think if that's ok? Just let me know where to send them and I'll get a box in the mail. I also think maybe we could collaborate on an event at some point if you'd be interested in that. I'm looking forward to hearing from you when you get a few spare minutes. Megan x
Helen
Tuesday 17th of February 2015
Hi there Megan - do drop me an email and we can chat :-D info@kiddycharts.com