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Building Your Child’s Confidence Through Family Projects

February 20, 2019 by Rhonda Gales Leave a Comment

Today, I’m sharing parenting tips on building your child’s confidence. Spending time with your children is something all parents want to be able to do. However, finding time can often be difficult. Especially, when you’re trying to juggle work schedules, meetings, school, after-school activities, and chores. So, why not get your children involved in family projects? Not only will you be doing projects with your children, but you will be strengthening your bond as well.

Furthermore, you can build confidence in your children with family projects. Doing projects with your children teaches them new skills, and helps build their confidence. And, they will teach your children how to work as a team. A skill that will help them in all aspects of their lives.

Gardening is a good project for the entire family and combines art and science for a great learning experience. It can be refreshing to get your children away from their electronics and outside learning about nature. Whether you want to start a vegetable or a flower garden, you must prepare the soil. Even younger children can help out because they love to play in the dirt. Make sure they aren’t using any tools that may hurt them. By working together as a team you, your family can not only start a beautiful garden, you can also work together to maintain it. It will need to be watered if it doesn’t rain enough. When vegetables are ripe, they will need to be picked. Your family can enjoy eating the fruits of your labor together.

Another way to building your child’s confidence is to bring out their artistic side. If you have a bland wall in your home give it some pizzazz. For older children or teens, especially if they have an innate artistic ability, why not let them put their talents to good use? You can paint your walls, put up textured wall art, or decorate with stencils or pictures. It will add some color and uniqueness to your home. The younger children can help by choosing the wall art, choosing the colors or handing tools to the older ones. To further include your younger children, have them decorate the mailbox. Most children enjoy drawing, coloring and painting. They will feel special, and have something to show off to their friends and others who visit your home.

Treehouses are very popular. It’s a great family project, and another way to build confidence in your children. You want to be sure you are using a sturdy tree basic woodworking skills. A treehouse can become a home where your children can spend time alone, time with their friends, or other family members. In order to make sure the treehouse is safe, it will take some time, patience, dedication, and determination. In a world where instant gratification is what most people expect, this can be a valuable lesson. Once the treehouse is complete, you may consider starting a new tradition such as a weekly Friday night of telling stories and playing games.

Family projects can include cleaning out the garage? Although this idea of a project might not sound very appealing, the entire family will be glad they worked together to organize their garage once it is done. You never know what you might find when you clean out clutter. Your children might find something they thought they had lost forever! You can install shelves or racks that will help maximize the clutter. Think about how much easier it will be to find things in your newly organized and neat garage. Planning a family movie afterward might also be a good incentive. Your children will be given the satisfaction working together to complete a task.

Working on family projects together is a way to building your child’s confidence. It’s similar to taking family vacations. You are making memories working and playing together. You might even learn new things about your children that you didn’t know. Their responses will give you insights into what is important to them, and their confidence will rise as you include them in important projects for your home.

Filed Under: Character Building, Parenting Tips Tagged With: children's chores, confidence boosters, parenting advice

How to Learn More About Yourself

October 1, 2018 by Rhonda Gales Leave a Comment

Learning more about yourself is always a good thing. It can enhance your career prospects or help you get insight into how you can be a better person. During your journey, you may end up unearthing a skill that you never knew existed. Most importantly, you may be able to use that ability to help your future. However, you must enter into the world of self-discovery in order to learn more about yourself and become self-empowered:

Push yourself out of your comfort zone

You’re never going to unearth any skills that you may have lying under the surface if you don’t find a way to bring them out. As a result, you have to start finding your way into alien territories and push yourself to enhance.

Quite simply, this means stepping out of your comfort zone and trying something new. This could mean doing taking on different tasks at work set to taking on new and exciting challenges with friends. For example, such as entering an Escape Room. An Escape Room is where you can play games and solve puzzles with others. Each room has its own storyline. You have 60 minutes to search for clues and solve the puzzles to earn your freedom and escape the room! It’s an opportunity to find make new friends and to do something different. Taking on new tasks allows you to offer your skills or assistance on a new project. Think about your knowledge and skill and put them to use. Doing so will help you learn more about yourself.

Adhere to your body clock

You may have been told from a young age that “the early bird catches the worm.” But, you don’t necessarily have to get up early in the morning in order to be successful. Everybody’s body clock is different. For some people, getting up later or even during the day is just more natural. So, if you feel like getting up early does nothing at all to help you to be proactive then try getting up a bit later.

Listen to your gut

Start listening to those gut feelings you get in certain situations. It’s your intuition raising red flags so you can assess what’s happening. Most of the time it’s a warning about something or someone. If something doesn’t sit right follow your instinct.

Finally, take heed and implement these steps into your life so you can learn more about yourself.

Filed Under: Confidence, Empowerment Tagged With: confidence boosters, self-esteem tips for mothers, women's self help

25 Ways To Feed Your Soul

September 3, 2015 by Rhonda Gales

Today, I’m sharing empowerment tips on ways to feed the soul. Our soul is the essence of who we are. So, feeding the soul is different from feeding the body. We feed our body to live, we feed our soul to connect with who we are and to make us whole. Are you feeding your soul? If not, I have a few suggestions on how you can get started.

For me, I find peace and connect with nature through gardening and photography. Its beauty touches my soul. I could literally spend hours enjoying all of its glory. In the spring the grass turns green and flowers come to life. It motivates me to become one with nature and it awakens one of my passions, gardening. In the summer I enjoy the sound of the ocean and fall the beautiful colors.

Just sipping a hot cup of coffee while inhaling the crisp air on a fall morning stirs my soul too. I gather fall leaves for crafts and take nature hunts with the kids. These things illuminate who I am and brightens my spirit. Feeding my soul leads me to my voice.

Ways to Feed Your Soul and Awaken Your Spirit:

Take a long walk/hike.
Have a good old fashioned picnic with your husband/significant other.
Go to the book store and buy a book.
Pick a bouquet of flowers from the backyard.
Take a drive through the country.
Plant a garden or a few flowers.
Listen to your favorite songs.
Take a bubble bath.
Curl up with a cup of tea.
Let go of all things and people that cause you stress.
Take a yoga or meditation class.
Light your favorite candle and have a cup of coffee.
Attend/join church.
Take a walk on the beach and listen to the ocean.
Read daily inspirations.
Watch the sun rise or set.
Refinish or paint a piece of furniture.
Have a good cry.
Go sight seeing.
Get a manicure and/or pedicure
Bake a batch of cookies and enjoy.
Clean out a closet, attic, or basement and reminisce.
Revisit one of your favorite childhood places.
Refresh your bedding.
Spend time with your children/grandchild and laugh.

Last, start feeding your soul. It allows your light to shine, and you will feel rejuvenated, happy, and find the way to great things in your life. You may also like Slaying Your Dragons With Faith

Filed Under: Confidence, Empowerment Tagged With: confidence boosters, self improvement, spiritual inspiration

Tips on Succeeding As a Single Parent

April 20, 2014 by Rhonda Gales

Today, I’m sharing parenting advice on succeeding as a single parent. Raising children as a single parent, whether you’re a mother or father, can be exhausting. It takes focus, strength and determination to succeed, but it can be done. I am living proof that it can be done.

So, if we accept that each and every one of us are where we are because of decisions that we’ve made, we will be more willing to make better decisions. Life doesn’t have an eraser, and as long as we continue to make bad choices we will come up short. Life is not perfect, we will all fail from time to time. But, don’t let poor decision making be what’s driving you.

You should know that when you decide to change courses, drive will be what takes you from Point A to Point B and beyond. If you don’t have any drive get some. You must be willing to dig deep inside of yourself when you feel you can’t go on. Furthermore, you must be willing to make sacrifices. Life isn’t easy, and the world doesn’t owe you anything just because of you’re a single parent.

Most importantly, I refused to allow myself to fall into the stereotypes that society has set aside for single mothers. Have you noticed that single dads are praised for their endeavors, but women are looked at differently? Unfair maybe, but it is indeed a fact. I refused to depend on the system to take care of me or my child, and I have no regrets about my decision! I believe the system should be a stepping stone if it’s going to be used. But that is simply my belief.

Succeeding As a Single Parent:

Become Determined – Decide that you’re going to make it and nothing will stop you. You have to be focused and determined.
When the going gets tough, dig deep within and find the strength. Know the strength is there and your child or children need you to plow on.
Listen to your intuition – It is usually right. I’ve lost count of the number of times I looked the other way when I should have been paying attention to that little voice inside.
Decide that you’re going to be a good example for your children – Become the person that you would like them to be. (Think about the characteristics that are important to you, honesty, reliable, etc.)

Remember, the world doesn’t owe you anything – You need to make your mark and become self sufficient. You’ll feel much better about yourself.
Develop a plan – You must plan in order to be successful. Decide what you want to do and what you need to do to accomplish your goals.
Find support either on-line or in your community – You’re not alone.
Always make your children a priority – You can balance a job and your home. Women do it every day. If you need to enhance your skills before seeking a job, get in a program where you can get assistance. Finding balance is key.
Don’t neglect yourself – You need to feel good about yourself. When you feel good about yourself you’ll achieve more.
Find a higher power or church – It’s important that you believe in someone or something other than you. You will be calling on them for strength and support along your journey.

Succeeding as a single parent has been accomplished by many. Again, I am speaking from experience. Please share some of your struggles and how you’ve overcome them as a single mother. There may be someone who can relate and build on your tips. You may also like Tips for Raising a Child Alone.