How Do I Help Build My Childs Confidence?

How do I make my child more confident, who lacks confidence? and in this case, the parent is saying, because of my postpartum depression, feeling like maybe that child's confidence has been affected due to, um, the, the parent's postpartum depression. Wondering if you could just, um, shed some light on, on that question, um, that, how to, that came in. Yeah. So I wanna talk a little bit about, um, uh, postpartum depression. I don't know if that was something that occurred when the child was, was young or if that's something that's they're experiencing now. So I'm gonna speak to that both directions. If you're currently feeling that postpartum depression, I would want to make sure that you're taking care of self, doing self-care, uh, cre creating interactions that are positive for you. Um, some of the best things that we can do for postpartum depression, including getting outdoors, being moving the body, and, and, and sometimes I read a book called Spark, and they found that one of the best things that we can do when we're experiencing postpartum depression is to get a mild, mild form of exercise. So it might be taking the child on a stroll around the block, uh, being in nature, uh, and, and just being outside can be, can be beneficial. Number two is actually our eating habits. And, um, and, and after giving birth, it's very, very common for the body. It's, it's, it's lost a lot of hormones and chemicals with the delivery of the baby. So it takes a little bit of time. I would wanna make sure that I'm talking to the doctor about that, because many medical professionals today are aware of postpartum depression, and they can offer, um, suggestions on how to best go through that. So I would do that. Now, let's talk about your child level of confidence. And that, interestingly enough, still can come back to helping you make sure that you are confident because the message you want to send to your child is really, I want you to believe in yourself, but if you don't believe in yourself, it's really hard to say to your child, Hey, you're doing great. You're enough. Now, you may be saying it, but if you don't believe yourself that you're enough, it's hard to really put that message and that energy into that. So work on self because you are enough and, and the fact that you're showing up asking these types of questions tells me that you care. It, it matters to you. So if I can, I, I would wanna give you a pat on the back and say, you're doing just fine. The next part of that, I would say is as you go through this type of an experience, sometimes being open, you know, sometimes in my life I felt sad and I've lacked confidence. Well, how did you do that? How did you get outta that? That's their question. And that's you talking about how you overcame challenges, adversity. What we want to do is we wanna teach our children to be resilient, strong, to do hard things, and we're gonna go through these emotional experiences and we're gonna come out of them. The true thing of all life is we have both emotions. Many, I should say, good and bad, hard and easy. We have a range of experiences. And what we want to teach ourselves and our children is that when we go through hard things, we can get back up. We can do these things that are hard. And so in this, I would say to your child, look, I want you to know that you are incredible. Now, you might not feel that way sometimes. Sometimes you might struggle with confidence, but let's talk about what confidence is. Where does it even come from? Now, that would be an interesting conversation between you and your child. What do you think makes one person confident and another one not as confident? Now what you're doing is brainstorming. How does this person get cnce? Why is that person confident? Why is that person not? And so now you're going back and forth having a meaningful conversation, which is very good for you and your child. You might wanna think through some of those questions in advance.