Sep 29

Perhaps one of the most challenging characteristics that any parent has to instill in his or her child is a positive image of the self. It had being very tough for the parents to build self esteem in teenager. Teenager is that stage in which peers and their colleagues plays a major role in their personality development. Teens are highly influenced by their peers. Low self esteem teenagers are more likely to have a hard time coping smoothly with adulthood, compared with somebody who’s had a positive view of himself early on. The best thing that parents can do is to foster a loving and accepting home environment, and to encourage their teen to develop his strengths. There is no one way to deal with low self esteem teenagers, but one thing’s for sure: “you can always give them love”.

There are some signs of low self esteem teenagers.
1. Does your teen avoid making eye contact when you talk with him?
Failure to make eye contact by a normal person implies: he is lying, or he is feeling uncomfortable in interacting with you.

2. Does your teen brush off compliments?
Low self esteem teenagers cannot take a compliment with a simple “Thankyou”. He started brushing off the compliment by giving different fake reasons.

3. Is your teen often impatient, angry, and frustrated at anything and everything?
When a person is not feeling good about “who he is”, it is expected that he doesnt like anything around him. This behaviour of teenagers is often treated with hostility which makes them feel more inferior than ever before. The parents should try to find out the root of the anger and seek ways to discuss it calmly.

4. Is your teen very sensitive to jokes and always takes things personally?
A person having an ill image of himself can misunderstood and hurts by the simple jokes. So you should be very careful with jokes related to physical appearance and school performance.