Do you ever compare your child with other children?

Parenting Tips: It often happens that children are told that seeing other children how well they work, study or respect others, but have you ever thought What effect can your saying this have on the children? If not, then let us tell you how your little comparison can have a bad effect on your little one’s mind and how it can lower his self-esteem.

 

1. If parents compare older children with their younger siblings, it will encourage competitive feeling in children, and older children may start teasing, fighting, hitting and behaving aggressively towards younger children.

 

2. When children are compared with their siblings, friends or cousins, they feel insecure and try to maintain distance from their parents. It can also undermine their relationship.

 

3. When kids aren’t appreciated and constantly compared to others, their talents won’t blossom, and they won’t do things with the same enthusiasm and passion.

 

4. If children see their parents appreciating other children more, they feel scorned and will never try to please their parents.

 

5. If children get constant taunts from their parents, they gradually start avoiding parental and social relations and their hesitation also increases.

 

6. Children’s self-confidence is affected by comparison with other children. If a child feels that he or she is ‘worthless’, it may worsen his or her performance.

 

7. Children’s development is stunted when they begin to believe that they are not capable of performing well. They will always think that they will never be able to live up to the expectations of their parents.