On a mission to help families and children thrive, parenting expert, father of three, and founder Nadim Saad offers advice on what we can take from 2020 to help move into 2021 with greater positivity, optimism, and strength. There is no arguing that 2020 was a tough and challenging year for us all, and now […]
Children can feel anxious in these challenging and uncertain times. And is it any wonder when they hear adults around them and on the news talking about the virus, deaths, etc.? Not to mention that for the majority of children, their external reality has also changed. Kids all over the country have to wear masks […]
Research shows that our habits create our reality. The easiest and most effective way to make positive change is to make small daily changes. Over time, these little changes accumulate, and result in considerable change over time. We’ve identified seven positive habits – all based on renowned psychological principals and research – to help the […]
Every parent wants to boost their children’s self-esteem and confidence. However, the latest research shows that some of the things that parents do with the best of intentions can actually be detrimental to a child’s self-esteem, particularly because our actions can make children doubt our sincerity and cause them to become afraid of failure. Here […]
In the second half of the 20th century, boosting children’s self-esteem started becoming an important aspect of parenting and lavishing children with praise was considered to be the most effective way of achieving this. This thinking endures today, with 85 percent of American parents believing that their children need to hear that they are clever […]
The digital revolution has brought many advantages, but it has also had some less desired effects—especially for children. For a great many children, their lives are dominated by social media and many spend their spare time competing with friends over who can post the perfect ‘selfie’. Some psychologists argue that the implications of this are […]
As parents, we want our children to be happy and successful in life, so from an early age we do what we can to help nurture their eagerness to learn. We want our children to be able to take on new challenges with confidence and to understand the true value of persistence, self-discipline and hard […]
When setting up the Happy Confident Company, our mission was clear. We want to create a future where children are resilient, have self belief, are emotionally articulate and understand and value themselves. Everything that we do, the courses we run, the products we develop and the partnerships we make are planned with this goal in […]
As parents, we all want to raise confident children who thrive. Yet for decades, parenting experts had it all wrong as they believed that confidence and self-esteem could be boosted by praising children with words such as ‘You’re smart’ and ‘Well done’. Extensive research done in the last decade shows that this can be detrimental […]
Recent research has made significant discoveries in the understanding of what makes children want to take on challenges and why they can become afraid of making mistakes. And consequently, the effect this can have on their confidence, self-esteem and level of resilience. For ten years, psychologist Carol Dweck and her team at Columbia and Stanford […]
