The need to help children to have more self-confidence is a request we often hear from parents these days. Could it be that this lack of self-confidence may be related to a lack of good manners? 

Webster defines confidence as: “faith or belief that one will act in a right, proper, or effective way.”

If your child has knowledge that results in the ability to act in the right or proper manner, this helps to instill self-confidence and once again reinforces the importance of good manners. Manners are the guidelines, we as parents can use to teach our children the rules needed for living and to enable self-confidence to happen.

Good Manners and self-confidence are directly related. So once again teaching good manners is not about what to do…but rather something much bigger… they are about how to be.