Dr. Chheda – We have lots of descriptive words for our children. We call them shy, inattentive, or distracted. These are appropriate terms, but they’re not the most positive for children to hear. Now, you need to acknowledge your child, and you want to try to help them. But in order to help build their self-confidence and to change their behavior, you want to use terms that the child can live up to. For example, if you have a shy child, don’t call him shy in front of him. He will just live up to being even more shy. But you can say, “my brave child” or “my observant child” or “my conscientious child,” and then your child will live up to that expectation and change their behavior from shy to being observant, to being a little bit more conscientious. That way, you can change how they view themselves in a positive light, but you’re still acknowledging to yourself that they’re showing traits you’re trying to change. Transcriptions from AI and may not be 100% accurate