Helping Your Child Be More Confident
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Subject Line: Helping Your Child Be More Confident, Part One
Hello Ministry Families and Friends:
I hope you are enjoying the fall season and changes of the weather. What a wonderful time of year. It is amazing to see how each season brings with it traditions, holidays, and memories.
Much like our kids, it is fun to watch the changing season of their lives as well. It is exciting to see the maturing moments and new things that come out during each season. It is why I am eager to share this month’s Online Parenting Class.
This month’s short video is all about building confidence in our children, especially in times of change and shift. Whether it is a new school, new house, or even new classroom, these moments can be moments of insecurity or withdrawal. These seasons can also be amazing times of teaching and building confidence in our children, too.
Embrace these moments in the life of your child. Use these moments to grow your children into confidence and independent as Christ-followers.
Give this month’s video a watch, and let me know what you think.
https://vimeo.com/parentministry/review/280519309/064bec8aa2
In Him,
Children’s Pastor
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Subject Line: Helping Your Child Be More Confident, Part 2
Dear Parents,
I am so excited to be able to once again share with you some quick inspiration for your month, through our monthly Online Parenting Class.
If you have not heard about these yet, each month we send along a short 4-5-minute video inspiration to help in a few key ways with your parenting. They are the best of a long parenting class condensed into a quick snippet packed with a whole lot to consider.
Each of these videos we will be sharing with you this school year are a quick, simple, but powerful way to build up your faith and confidence as parents. It is just another way we want to continue to partner with you.
This month’s video is about “Helping Your Child Be More Confident”. I think you will find this practical and so helpful! I hope you enjoy it.
As always, if you have any questions or comments about these videos, I would love to talk to you more!
Blessings –
Children’s Pastor
Video Script
Helping Your Child Be More Confident
It’s so incredible to watch our kids mature and grow through the years. There are
parenting moments when you see your kids mature right in front of your eyes and it
always surprises us in a good way! In those moments, we are reminded that our time
with them is short. I know that’s a hard thought to think about but this month we want to
help you capture the time you have and be more strategic than ever. This month we
want to talk about how to help your kids become more confident.
Confidence is one of those things that most kids need help with. Now your child may be
outgoing and courageous but there will come a time when you see them lack
confidence. Any moment your child faces where they must step into the unknown can
bring out debilitating fear in them. We know the feeling even as adults. We have to start
a new job. We move to a new church. We have a meeting with a large group of people
we don’t know. We often feel insecure and we are adults. Now imagine how your child
feels when they start a school year, sport, or face a family move to a new city. What can
we do to help them be more confident when facing the unknown?
Confidence is something we see God reveal in the Bible often. We read stories about
people in days past that confidently trusted God to deliver them. That kind of confidence
is available to us and our kids even today. In Psalm 57:7 we read about confidence…
“My heart is confident in you, O God; my heart is confident. No wonder I can sing your
praises!”
When we embrace confidence in God we can sing His praise through any challenge.
This is the kind of confidence we want to breathe into our children. We don’t want them
to trust their own ability but rather the strength of God. God can be trusted, therefore our
kids have a reason to be confident.
Here are a few simple ways we can inspire more confidence in our kids…
- Don’t dismiss fear, confront it. When your child is insecure never dismiss it as
silly. Allow your kid to open up and learn how to share how they feel. When you
listen, you get the chance to help them really identify what is driving the fear! - Teach kids to pray for confidence. It’s up to us to help our kids understand that
when they are insecure they can turn to God. This is when faith becomes real.
God actually cares about our lives and kids need to know they can turn to God. - Allow kids to experience risk. We all want to protect our kids but there are times
we have to allow them to face risk so they can develop more confidence. Allow
them to go into a new class and make new friends. Allow them to deal with the
unknown. The right amounts of risk lead to conversations and lessons learned. - Celebrate courage. Point out when your kid has done something courageous
and celebrate that step. It’s so important that we as parents speak confidence into their tiny hearts. They need to know how proud we are of them even if it was just a small step of confidence.
We hope this helps give you a place to start when it comes to your child and
confidence. Thanks for allowing us to invest in your family.
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Tweet One: Capture moments of change in the life of your child as times to be intentional and strategic. #confidentkids #parenting #changes #familyfaith
Tweet Two: Confidence is something we see God reveal in the Bible often. We need to read those stories to our children to teach them to confidently trust God too. #readthestory #livethestory #confidence #parenting #familylife #mom
Tweet Three: When we embrace confidence in God we can sing His praise through any challenge. This is the kind of confidence we want to breathe into our children. #parentpraise #familiyworship #teachconfidence #momfaith #dadfaith
Tweet Four: When you listen to your child’s fears, you get the chance to help them really identify what is driving them. #nofear #listen #parenting #faithandfamily
Tweet Five: Faith becomes real to a child when they see us pray with confidence. #confidentmom #confidentdad #familyprayer #mom #dad #parenting
Tweet Six: Allowing our children to take risks allows them to develop their confidence and their faith. #parent #parenting #familyfaith #confidence #riskyfaith