Our Daughter lost her 2 front teeth just in time for her to sing “All I want for Christmas” appropriately. A few months prior, we had 4 bottom teeth extracted so as to avoid visits to an Orange NJ invisalign in the future. Thank God that she has not experienced any feeling of shame because of her missing teeth. I’d like to believe that we have consistently demonstrated to her that she is pretty in our eyes with or with out the teeth.
I guess the security of a child really comes from the affirmation that his or her parents give. In a normal school setting, peer affirmation is significant because of the higher amount of time of peer exposure. A lot of times, there exists pressure to look and dress in a certain way. If not managed or balance, kids will grow up being subdued by the tyranny of the many. True liberty is achieved when youngsters have the moral freedom to stand on their convictions. Kids need to be trained to be their own person regardless of what others think.
Our children imitates us most often than not. So if we want to teach them self confidence we should at all times try to be confident in all our dealings.