Strong self esteem is vital for a child to be happy and successful. But how can you help your daughter develop hers?
Q. I’m having problems with my nearly 7-year-old, who cries over everything. She is quite a perfectionist and the way she looks is very important to her, so it’s often about clothes. She asks for my help with ...
Q. My 10 year old daughter seems to be suffering from low self esteem. What can I do to increase it and build her own self-belief? A. The key here is to praise, care and nurture your daughter. Praise her effort rather th...
Q. My daughter lacks self-confidence. What can I do to help? She always sees herself as being ‘not good enough’ and feels insignificant at school. Her school report reflects this greatly. How do you build a da...
Six out of ten girls think they would be happier if they were thinner and 81% of women strongly agree that “the media and advertising set an unrealistic standard of beauty that most women can never achieve”. It is in...
School refusal, or phobia, is sometimes confused with truancy. However, this is not a situation where the child ‘bunks off’ school to go shopping, or hang about the town centre. Imagine a child who simply refuses to ...
Read other families experiences of raising and educating girls. How did they research, debate and decide on the best school for their daughters? Was it the right choice for their daughter and how do they know? Read the real-life stories…
Read our experts’ replies to those questions that every parent asks. Our “agony aunts” draw on their experience as parents, teachers and Heads to offer suggestions, explanations and solutions
