Building Self Confidence In Children - How Nursing Students Can Help

Abhishek Agarwal


In teenagers and children self confidence and self respect may drop all of a sudden. And the cause for this is ill conceived realizations, previous experiences, race, gender and also how a person appears physically.

The effect of all this is immeasurable on a person’s mind. Because of no self confidence the children can be misguided to a great extent and be driven also to a wrong direction. There should be some one to put them on the right path, save them from getting misguided and bring back their lost self confidence. Ideally that someone should be a person whom they look up to and are comfortable to talk about almost anything.

Out of many groups nursing students have proved to be very useful in building self- confidence in children. If they are with the right skills and are trained well in medical care, nursing students can help any child to build confidence by giving instructions to each of the child to influence them.

Why are they effective?

Children need someone to look up to and follow them, now if the age difference is more, it will make it difficult for them to open up and be comfortable. Since nursing students are in their teen years so there is not much age difference and besides children may look up to them as their elder sister or brother whom they can consult and confide in. Children with no self-confidence may head further into wrong direction altogether if they are not given right kind of encouragement to open up and talk about their problems and free their mind of them.

Nursing students can mould children to talk to them even without compelling them to do so. Teenagers who don’t have enough confidence in themselves often lack the ability to talk to others normally. Other teenagers of the same age or slightly above their age, who are close, would understand them better. Children who are bottled up and want to discuss their problems definitely need a friend who would lend them shoulder. Nursing students are best suited for this as they are young, of high moral and intellectual value, show great interest and appear to have a natural desire to help especially these small children.

In certain cases you may never know the reasons or the root causes of lack of self- confidence in children unless they open up to you. If the persons close to you are the part of the problem then these children can never talk to them about their problems as they share half the blame. Therefore children need somebody who is not involved and nursing student would be a good fit.

The person motivating the children to have self confidence has to have it himself first and then pass it onto children. Therefore, it’s important for the nursing students to have the right kind of character to get involved in such an endeavor. Nursing students can be the ideals to bring back the self-confidence in these small children.



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