10 Daily Affirmations which work like magic on your kids

Everyone would have heard about Affirmations and their positive impact on us somewhere or another. Then you might ask, what’s so big a deal about these daily affirmations for kids? That’s what I even felt some time back, and I never really bothered about introducing my child to the concept of affirmations. Though we keep telling him that you are unique and special as a part of our Montessori Parenting philosophy, we never really gave ourselves time for these affirmations.

Our Story:

But during the pandemic, when the entire world is shut down, my child has lost his privilege to spend time with peers. For an eight-year-old boy, socializing and meeting his friends is a part of growing up. When the entire fun part of his life was taken away due to lockdown, my child went through a stressful phase, and his usual bubbly nature started to mellow down. He never had a role model to look up to so that he could think of conquering a challenging task.

In the meantime, his gymnastics classes have started online, and his coaches are asking him to do a headstand. I knew he could not do it, so I went to hold his legs so he could hold himself properly. He kicked me so hard that I was pushed almost a foot or two. His coaches were worried about whether he would hurt himself in this process. My kid also became upset and told himself he couldn’t do a headstand. He is not a good gymnast anymore.

That’s when the brutal truth hit me, with his words echoing in my ears for a day or two. We worked out positive encouragement techniques to pep him up and start boosting his self-confidence. Slowly, he started understanding the basic methods of the headstand. Within two weeks, he could do a perfect headstand, and his coaches were a little surprised by his persistence in completing the difficult task. That’s when we realized the positive impact of affirmations on the child’s development.

When is the right time to use these Affirmations with Kids?

So, now you all must also be wondering, just like me, when and how to introduce this concept of daily affirmations to kids. Affirmations are nothing but positive talk that you will have with your kids. As parents, we always use encouraging phrases for kids so we can introduce them whenever we use encouraging words.

Also, please note that every child is different, and his need for affirmations will differ. So, there is no straightforward copy-paste list of affirmations that one can use. But, it would help if you tailored them based on your needs and situations.

To introduce reading the daily affirmations, the kid should be able to speak a couple of sentences fluently and repeat them along with us. To start with, we need to recite these affirmations along with the kids until they get the hang of them. Once they can recite them easily, we can make any new changes to that list based on our needs.

How will these Affirmations work with Kids?

This is one of those difficult questions for which we can’t answer quantitatively but can only give qualitative proof. All these affirmations are nothing but positive self-talk that we teach our kids so that negative or self-harming thoughts are removed from their brains.

Research shows that almost 70% of our thoughts are always negative, and it takes a lot of consistent practice to remove or convert those negative thoughts into positive thoughts. We can only use the positivity and mindfulness around us to remove the consistent negative chatter inside our brains.

Kids being tender and not still influenced by the negativity around them, it’s easier for us to mold their thinking into positive thinking. As per the law of attraction, the more positive kids think, the more they can achieve what they want earlier in life. So, as parents, it’s our first responsibility to remove the negative talk from our kid’s life. So, using these daily affirmations with kids can do wonders for their lives. One can see a remarkable change in them once we start using these affirmations on them.

Sample positive affirmations that I used for my son.

Here are a few affirmations I regularly use with my child.

I always believe in you

You are a brave child

There are no limits for you

You are willing to try out new things and challenges

You are a good fighter

You care for others deeply

I will be there for you always

I love hanging out with you

You are Unique

You make others smile

There are a lot more affirmations than those I have listed above. I keep adding based on the situations at home or his school. Of course, there are days when my son wouldn’t listen to or practice these affirmations like a typical eight-year-old boy. All he wants to do is to lie down and crib. That happens to everyone. So, we need to give him some space and time to dwell on that emotion of frustration. I give him my shoulder to lean on and support him. Then, he would bounce back slowly but surely as all the earlier affirmations would start working on him internally.

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Books that I used:

“Affirmations for Kids by Julio Medina“ is one book I stumbled across in Kindle Unlimited. This short and crisp book contains affirmations that we can use directly with our kids. It’s also formatted so that we can take the printouts and hang them in our children’s rooms as well.

But my kid has liked “Mistakes are How I Learn by Kiara Wilson.” Now that he has reached the age of self-reading, he wants to read books and think about them without my interference sometimes. So, we kept this book handy in our KU for him to read and reread as and when he feels like it.