{"id":360,"date":"2017-02-18T10:31:50","date_gmt":"2017-02-18T16:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.iseeme.com\/blog\/?p=360"},"modified":"2017-02-01T10:44:34","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T16:44:34","slug":"books-increase-self-esteem-children-colors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.iseeme.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/18\/books-increase-self-esteem-children-colors\/","title":{"rendered":"How Books Increase the Self-Esteem of Children of All Colors"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s very easy to assume we all face the same challenges as parents, but this isn\u2019t the case. Consider, for the moment, that all-important question, how to increase your child\u2019s self-esteem? Creating a positive sense of self is important to any child, but some parents face more of a challenge than others. This is especially true when it comes to how children see themselves in popular culture.<\/p>\n

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The heroes and role models in modern culture are more varied than ever, but even so, it\u2019s hard to find many who aren\u2019t white. This can pose a problem if you don\u2019t fall into a light-skinned demographic. It\u2019s not that an African-American kid can\u2019t dream of being Superman, but there\u2019s a barrier there that his friends may not have to jump.<\/p>\n

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Kids like to see themselves in themselves in their heroes, and are extremely sensitive to media portrayals of their ethnic or cultural group. When popular culture portrays people who look like you in a negative light, it can have a serious impact on self-esteem.<\/p>\n

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How to Increase Your Child\u2019s Self-Esteem Through Books<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fortunately, books offer a medium where a child\u2019s image of a character need not be determined by popular culture. Unless the book specifically describes someone as a certain skin color, there\u2019s no reason for a child to assume they don\u2019t look like her.<\/p>\n

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Personalized books for children<\/a> take things a step further. By customizing the book\u2019s hero with your child\u2019s name, gender, and even photo, you provide your kid with a hero who not only looks like him\u2014he is him! This makes any child feel special.<\/p>\n

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Reading itself is an excellent way to increase a child\u2019s self-worth, perhaps because the act of reading requires effort. You can watch television or a movie passively, but reading is an active form of entertainment. It\u2019s up to the child to imagine the world of the book, how the characters talk, and how they look. Even if the story is a picture book, the reader brings the pictures to life, which requires an imaginative effort.<\/p>\n

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In a perfect world, it wouldn\u2019t matter what skin color our children\u2019s heroes were, and with time and effort, we might yet get there. Until then, books offer a chance to introduce children of all colors to characters who are defined by what they do, not how they look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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