Finding and Nurturing Your Child’s Passions

If your child is entirely a novice in an activity but you see them really interested in it, it can even be more difficult for them to deal with failure if they come across it during the activity. It’s already a very cutthroat and tough world out there with competitions wherever you turn. For children, it can even be harder for them to compete with others who are already in different stages of mastery with the certain activity they are interested in. This can even cause more pressure on your child.

Take for example, your child is interested in arts and you’ve enrolled them in drawing classes. They join in and see the others doing full-on sketches with depth and dimensions already while they are still starting out with learning shapes and lines. They will feel more pressure to learning it as quickly as they could so they can catch up with the other students. As such, if they fail to do so, their confidence may take the brunt of it and incidents like this may cause them to be disheartened and not continue on with their passions, thinking they have already failed the first step towards it.

Parents want their children to be the best they can be and in order for them to achieve that, parents must also teach them to be optimistic even if they experience failure. These failures can even be teaching moments for the child in order for them to come out stronger than before.

A good way to inspire optimism is to relate to what your child is going through by telling them personal stories of challenges you have also faced and how you have gotten past them in order to become better. As such, help them also understand that everyone starts somewhere and not everyone will already be good or an expert on the first try. They can take their time to hone their passions and turn them into skills. All the negativity will not help them achieve that.