What are some ways to build a girl/ woman's confidence?

Question

What are some ways to build a girl/ woman's confidence?

Answer 1

Stop being a sheep and worrying about wearing a label.

Answer 2

She has to do it herself, and the best way is through accomplishment.

All you can do is be a friend.

You can't talk someone into having more confidence. That is why therapy never fixes anyone, and why people who receive charity can't really feel equal to people who do not.

Answer 3

Self acceptance, trusting your own instincts and judgements.

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Why do you have low confidence? its because of FEAR(and a lack of self respect) that you wont be accepted as you are. How to be accepted? accept yourself.

Answer 4

Why is it only important to build a woman's confidence?

Hmm feminists aren't sexist though yeah right.

The best way to instill and build confidence in a PERSON is to teach them a good work ethic and then to lend support as they attempt knew things.

If the person is say becoming a gymnast or a skate boarder. Watch them as they practice and point out the things that you liked. And point out the things that could have looked better.

But most of all ask them questions about whatever it is they are doing qnd that will give them the drive to learn more and from that they learn to build their own confidence.

Answer 5

encourage her to find strenths and skills within herself that don't depend on anyone elses approval.  

Answer 6

Help yourself or expect your near and dear ones to do so.

World is not fair...I am MALE and no body helped me build confidence not even the illusionary patriachal world. The patriarchal world only dented my confidence whenever it got an opportunity to do something.

Answer 7

1. Saturational experiences:  Rather than merely babysitting ONE child, working with groups of children.  Rather than working as a clerk in a quiet office, working as a waitress in a busy lunch diner.  Rather than take four courses at the same time, taking seven.  Rather than mowing just one's own lawn, mowing several lawns in the same cycles.  Confidence builds from experience.

2.  Balanced opportunity for failure and success:  Learning has to be both challenging with the chance of failure and yet possible to succeed.  The younger the child, the more successes than failures there should be.  Teach that we learn through a process of trial and error and that failure is GOOD, a most healthy part of really getting down and dirty and being the captains of our self-determination.  Celebrate failures by telling yourself or letting a child hear exhuberantly, "That's another step UP for you.  Eee-haaa!  You now know that doesn't work out right.  Knowing that EMPOWERS you."  Really believe that.  Confidence builds from true challenge, lots of them, avalances of them, and the courage to move immediately upwards off our mistakes.

3. It's all a learning curve:  Never compare yourself to anyone else.  Guide children sternly for doing that with frowns and such.  Tell little ones that there will ALWAYS be someone, lots of someones, who are smarter, prettier, richer, happier, whatever, than we are.  So what?  The game is lost if we conduct our lives in comparison.  The game is won when we tell ourselves it's an individual learning curve and all that matters is that we compete with just ourselves, with who we were a day or an hour or even a moment ago, and that the true measure of honor is how much we apply ourselves to that self-rise.  Express powerfully that expectation, that you expect the child or yourself to RISE, to learn, get stronger, go UP.  Term that "doing what's right".  Too many people think "doing what's right" means somehow doing what everyone else is doing.  Doing what's right, though, is a private affair.  Confidence builds from self-autonomy, being the "captain of one's own soul".

4.  Be rational:  Learn well the difference between subjective and objective.  A big problem people have is they construct cognitive foundations out of subjective beliefs, which is like walking on marshmellows.  Make sure to construct cognitive foundations out of solid, simple, honest, just, fair object concepts and THEN, as an individual, form your OWN subjective conjectures and beliefs / meanings from there.  Rationality is the tool for self-determination and independence.  See Wollstonecraft.  Confidence builds from rationality.

5.  Achieve emotional balance:  Avoid the "comfort paradigm" in which the "trick" in life to be "balanced" is to spend all of your energy on making the world hold still or be balanced around you.  That is impossible and although one certainly doesn't fall down so easily when the ground isn't shaking, one cannot learn true balance unless the ground is shaking.  The trick is to practice and acheive emotional balance within ourselves so that as the ground shakes, we don't fall down.  Confidence builds from emotional resilience.

6.  Set goals:  Goal-setting is crucial.  Short-range, medium-range and long-range.  Gobs of books out there about that.  Read them.  Confidence builds from acheiving goals.  You have to set them formally before you can acheive them.

7.  Invent the wheel:  That means, go back and learn the sequence of human tools and technology from the beginning.  Our species' use of tools is more important than we pay attention to, especially in regards to confidence building.  A deciding factor in success stories (read them) is technological knowledge.  This is an issue with the rise of women.  We've historically been locked out of technological development.  And, men have "monkey-grabbing" behaviors of dominating the exploration and use of tools.  For example, take a pair of adjustable plyers to a nursery school and give a small "show and tell" presentation to a class of children about that tool.  THEN, place the plyers on a table for the children to explore and back off to observe.  The boys will dominate the exploration, shoving the girls aside.  And, when you stop that and restrain them, they will wait impatiently and when they can't stand it any longer they will snatch or "monkey-grab" they plyers away from girls or smaller boys.  Learn about our species' technological rise in chronological order, from rock shaping tools to anti-matter engines.  Lots of books and films on that.  Then, start learning how to use every "trade" tool you can.  We cannot become visionaries or truely be confident if we aren't armed with basic tool knowledge.  Confidence builds from technological knowledge.  That's more important than we are generally aware of.

8. Save money:  Give children a blank journal and encourage them to write in it every day, only their day's "blessings", though, only about what happened good and positive that day and their hopes for the next, what they did right by themselves in their personal rises.  Too many people use journals only to wallow in negativity and such.  Don't do that or allow that.  And, then, read it with them and give them a dollar to put in that page.  A dollar a day that they can NEVER EVER EVER spend.  That dollar is supposed to represent a "self-investment", not monetary investment.  By never ever ever spending that money one gets this weird confidence that I think comes from separating ourselves from the money rat race system of "worth", that consumerism merry-go-round of spending money on "things" in a keeping-up-with-the-Jones hand-to-mouth existence.  Money, when we psychologically perceive it as a personal investment, something we pay to ourselves, becomes empowering rather than materialistic.  Women especially have a problem of too much sacrifice, too much giving and not enough self-investment.  We seldom keep personal nesteggs that give us maneuverability and true choice.  So, save money for rainy days.  Knowing in the back of our minds that we have a nestegg allows us to behave with less gnawing worry in our lives.  Never live too close to the edge financially.  Do without.  Invest in yourself with education and wise spending. Confidence comes from self-investment.

9.  Don't be afraid of getting hurt:  Too many girls avoid injury because they are investing in a "perfect" unscarred body that will be attractive to men.  That is self-objectification.  One cannot climb mountain, literally or figuratively without getting lots of bloody knees and elbows.  Avoid sterilizing a child's environment, over-protecting, to avoid minor injuries.  The play and physical conditioning that we need to potentiate as humans physiologically requires lots of blood, sutures and an occasional broken bone.  Humans are 95% genetically similar to monkeys and we should be able to do just about whatever other primates can do physically and should be LOT more physically powerful and graceful than most people are today.  Confidence comes from not being afraid of getting hurt and physically potentiating:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk4ZqskRB...

10.  Memorize this poem:

http://www.bartleby.com/103/7.html

Answer 8

sex_change.