The Obvious Method to Build a Child’s Belief that Parents Often Overlook
The technique to build a child’s belief in someone, something, and most importantly themselves is so obvious that parents often overlook it. Doctors know it, coaches know it, teachers know it, and preachers know it. However, parents rarely take advantage of this simple and obvious method.
This obvious method struck me while listening to Matt Dernlan discuss it during episode 11 of the Rudis wrestling podcast The Way. Dernlan states at the 4:15 minute mark:
…Where things start is the belief in yourself.
…You can only establish belief by doing a certain pattern of things over and over and over again until that belief becomes real.
…That seed of belief starts in your mind and spreads to your heart and spreads to your body
…It just grows and grows and grows and is reinforced by replicating things over and over again.
So there it is. The best thing a parent can do to help their kids believe in themselves is to establish healthy habits and routines based on proven patterns of success. Habits and routines around spirituality, hygiene, eating, exercise, training, practicing, learning, and sleep / recovery time among other things.