Beliefs: What Does Your Child Believe?

We are our beliefs. Everything we think, do, and say reflects what we believe. This is a powerful idea to consider when you're working so hard to make sure your child is getting the best possible education.

Why? Because our beliefs about ourselves are the foundation from which every thought and action come into being. What I believe about myself as a learner shows up as my self-confidence and esteem. It shows up in my ability to take risks, to reach out and try something new. It's big, really, really big.

Belief is everything. But where do our very first beliefs as learners come from?

A little baby's/child's first beliefs about themselves as learner come from their first social group-their family. All first beliefs about ourselves get handed down by our parents, some knowingly, most often unknowingly. These are the beliefs of the parents and are either about you or about them.

All children create their first core beliefs about themselves by absorbing the beliefs they see in their parents' eyes. This is an enormous responsibility as a parent.

Every day, all day long, as you play, live, encourage, have a difficult day, have a good day, your child is seeing the light of your beliefs about yourself and about them in your eyes. They also hear it in your words, and they watch it in your actions. They absorb your beliefs and make them their own.

What beliefs are you sending to your child when they look deep into your eyes? What beliefs are they absorbing and making their own when they hear you talk? What conversations are they overhearing?

What beliefs are they feeling when you are worrying about whether they are really going to be okay in school? What beliefs are you TRANSMITTING?

Dr. Melodee Loshbaugh

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