Use encouraging words during tests, sports, and challenging days to support their hard work and resilience. Offer support and understanding when your child is sick, struggling, or having a bad day. Express gratitude, appreciation, and inspiration to help your child feel valued and loved.

Here are 7 tips for using encouraging words for kids constructively: Praise sincerely and honestly. Be descriptive and specific with your praises. Praise your child’s effort not their achievement or ability. Frame your affirmation in a way that is not controlling or conditioning. Use words of encouragement but avoid overpraising.

Tips for offering positive words of encouragement to kids Find actions and qualities you genuinely appreciate, kids pick up on it if it’s inauthentic. The more specific the encouragment, the better Focus on the process (or their effort) more than the outcome of any given task Get down on their level and try to see things from their perspective

A few things your child can learn through your example and motivational words are compassion, perseverance, gratitude, positivity, courage, and how to deal with discouragement and failure.