A Daily Dose Of Confidence For Kids – By Daddilife!
If you’re familiar with the DaddiLife books you’ll know a little about the organisation which is primarily a parenting website for Dads. Having moved much further from that title, these days the are the producer of really informative, interesting and immersive books for both adults and children with a slightly different delivery to that which you may assume. The last book I reviewed for them for example, “You’re Going To Be A Dad!” is a collection of information for pregnancy and the first year of a baby’s life, brought to you by a group of Dads all sharing their own stories in different chapters dedicated to information from conception forwards. It’s an unusual delivery but it works really well and feels like a chat with mates rather than a self-help manual. I think that’s a really important topic for men especially as though society dictates that women are the talkers, the sharers of information, men need that too. I was then, eager to read their new manual published for children entitled “A Daily Dose Of Confidence For Kids” which I knew would be a little different to perhaps similar books for kids. Let’s have a look inside, for I wasn’t wrong!
This is a book to run for a whole year building confidence in children. With daily affirmations to read to and with your children, asking them to reflect upon the affirmation again themselves. There are also activities to be undertaken, all of which promote a happy, healthy mind and with pages which can be doodled on and coloured in this isn’t a book set out to feel like a chore – this is important, it is inviting, friendly and not set in stone.
Now, we all know that saying “you can only be as happy as your most unhappy child” and with it being so very true, the promotion of healthy mental health in children is so important, for not just the child, but for us parents too. I currently have a little boy who is very unhappy at school but cannot articulate any reasons why. He is just turned six, and the delivery on information about his feelings is a little beyond his capabilities. He is frustrated and this is making him even more unhappy. We have asked all the obvious questions, of course, but he is still unable to give us a definitive answer as to what it is exactly that’s making him feel so sad and angry. Though we haven’t worked our way through the book on a whole year’s basis as it is intended, set up month by month, we have been dipping in and out of it, trialling some of the activities to try and help him without him noticing. We will be looking at completing it on a month by month basis though so that we can participate in the challenge pages whereby we have space to set out goals for confidence before assessing what we’ve achieved at the end of the months.
The daily affirmations might go over his little head, or they might go in in some way and go towards gifting him a positive attitude for the week days when he has to go to school and is unhappy to do so. At the weekends he isn’t as happy as he used to be either, he always seems on edge so we have done them this weekend also and together taken on some of the tasks. The book says: Grow and develop your child’s confidence by making it a daily habit, which seems like pretty sound advice to me, for any child, not just one who may be struggling. It’s all about the preventative measures isn’t it. The daily affirmations (of which there are 366) come with areas to colour and to doodle on, this is an immersive book to be handled, used, written in, drawn on, loved and looked after as it looks after you. The confidence tree is a way to promote knowing what goals you are working towards and to reflect with at the end of the month to note your achievements. This is an on-going part of the book with other tasks delivered from the experts to promote a happier family life all round. There is lots of benefit in the book, and nothing to lose in trying it out, it could be just the ticket you’re after to build up and promoting happier, more confident children in your life.
In my experience of reading, and using with my family, the Daddilife books, I can say that they are always informative and helpful but that it’s more than that. The way they are constructed comes from really knowing family life and understanding the importance of maintaining positive mental health attitudes, which in turn ensure, healthy minds. Starting with the smallest is the best place to begin. This book is all about boosting confidence and offers little injections inside it from front to back.
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