JClinical Director of EDGE Learning and Wellness Collegiate Community in Chicago, Jason Wynkoop was recently interviewed by Woodbury and co-host Liz McGhee on the Parent Choices for Struggling Teens radio show. He spoke about the significance of children searching for real self-esteem. Lon Woodbury, the host of the L.A. Talk Radio show, is an independent academic consultant who has worked with innumerable families and adolescents since 1984. The program's co-host, Elizabeth McGhee, is the Director of Admissions and Referral Relations at Sandhill Child Development Center. She has well over 19 years of professional experience as a counselor, consultant and referral relationships specialist. The program was sponsored by Father Flanagan's Boys Town in Nebraska.
Jason Wynkoop
Jason Wynkoop has a master's in Social Work from the University of Chicago. He currently serves as the Clinical Director for EDGE Learning and Wellness Collegiate Community in Chicago. For more than 15 years, he has counseled kids, teenagers, grownups and families in educational and therapeutic organizations.
Why Searching for Real Self-Esteem is a Challenge
Jason briefly outlined where the principles of searching for self-esteem went wrong and exactly how wrong cultural ideas about undeserved praise harms young people. He also offered tips for constructing an accurate and more rewarding self-concept.
Kids commonly have have an incorrect self-concept. While some overstate what they can do others go to the opposite extreme and downplay their natural skills and abilities. Regrettably, lots of children are never offered the opportunity to establish a reasonable self-concept since both parents and school teachers tend to unconditionally praise everything that they doing to avoid damaging their budding confidence. As a result, when youngsters find that they may not be skilled in something, they often shy away from attempting anything new. By not making an attempt, they avoid the emotional pain of failing. Jason explained that the current social fad of nourishing self-confidence prior to established competence did not work at all. It was considerably better for kids to first develop proficiency before they could genuinely feel confident about their capacities.
Jason pointed out that self-esteem had to be developed through a process of trial-and-error. When parents overprotected or lavished undeserved praise on their offspring, they were hurting them and not helping them at all. Young people tend to feel confused and dismayed when real world experiences uncover their limits. At EDGE, parents are advised about how they can nourish their children's talents in practical ways and students are taught to provide for themselves, handle threats to their self-esteem, and appreciate their learning curve on their way to developing strengths and talents. In the last analysis, searching for real self-esteem was based upon trial-and-error and building an accurate self-concept.
Jason Wynkoop
Jason Wynkoop has a master's in Social Work from the University of Chicago. He currently serves as the Clinical Director for EDGE Learning and Wellness Collegiate Community in Chicago. For more than 15 years, he has counseled kids, teenagers, grownups and families in educational and therapeutic organizations.
Why Searching for Real Self-Esteem is a Challenge
Jason briefly outlined where the principles of searching for self-esteem went wrong and exactly how wrong cultural ideas about undeserved praise harms young people. He also offered tips for constructing an accurate and more rewarding self-concept.
Kids commonly have have an incorrect self-concept. While some overstate what they can do others go to the opposite extreme and downplay their natural skills and abilities. Regrettably, lots of children are never offered the opportunity to establish a reasonable self-concept since both parents and school teachers tend to unconditionally praise everything that they doing to avoid damaging their budding confidence. As a result, when youngsters find that they may not be skilled in something, they often shy away from attempting anything new. By not making an attempt, they avoid the emotional pain of failing. Jason explained that the current social fad of nourishing self-confidence prior to established competence did not work at all. It was considerably better for kids to first develop proficiency before they could genuinely feel confident about their capacities.
Jason pointed out that self-esteem had to be developed through a process of trial-and-error. When parents overprotected or lavished undeserved praise on their offspring, they were hurting them and not helping them at all. Young people tend to feel confused and dismayed when real world experiences uncover their limits. At EDGE, parents are advised about how they can nourish their children's talents in practical ways and students are taught to provide for themselves, handle threats to their self-esteem, and appreciate their learning curve on their way to developing strengths and talents. In the last analysis, searching for real self-esteem was based upon trial-and-error and building an accurate self-concept.
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Lon Woodbury, the founder of Struggling Teens, has recorded the entire interview on his weekly L.A. Talk Radioshow for people to listen to at their convenience.
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