SELF+ESTEEM


 * [[image:AW_SelfEsteem.jpg]] || **What is self-esteem?**

"﻿Though it's impossible to legislate high self-esteem, our own self-esteem has huge implications for our life paths. Our history of self-esteem begins as children, and follows us throughout our lives; it affects all our decisions - and, like a garden, needs constant tending." www.bbc.co.uk Se lf esteem is about how we think and feel about who we are! Feeling valuable as a human being, and liking ourselves, is an issue that affects everyone in education: teachers, pupils and parents. Self esteem is an attitude of the mind and, like most attitudes, it can be developed and changed. Our own self esteem can be high or low, positive or negative. Building our self esteem is a key component to building positive environments for the children in our care. Having high self esteem ourselves is the first step to promoting it in the colleagues and children around us every day.

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