Decscribe how communication can be used to promote self esteem

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P3-Decscribe how communication can be used to promote self esteem

Children of all ages require self esteem to feel good about themselves. However self esteem is also crucial to a child's happiness. Only when they are comfortable with themselves and believe that their abilities have worth will children truly feel fulfilled. Unfortunately, self esteem can often be in short supply throughout childhood and the teenage years. At some time, nearly every child or teen will suffer from low self esteem. While this is normally a transitory experience, low self esteem can also be a plague that feels like it will never go away. Promoting self esteem among children and teens is thus of the utmost importance to ensure that they will feel talented, happy and loved

Verbal praising is where children are told how well or good they have done in whatever they many are doing so therefore this encourages the children to carry this further on. Throughout verbal praising things such as, "great stuff", "thank you for doing that so well", "you're a star", "I'm really impressed" and things along them line are said to children to give them confidence which promotes happiness throughout the child. Also