What are some ways to cultivate children's willpower?

Children nowadays are rather spoiled. Many parents revolve around one child and satisfy their needs in any way they want. Moreover, the children’s characters are relatively weak. When faced with problems, they do not have strong psychological endurance and they do not have any willpower to do things. When they encounter difficulties, they think of giving up. This is definitely not conducive to the child’s growth. We must actively cultivate the child’s willpower and make the child’s character better, which will also be of great help to his future life.

Goal-oriented approach

Parents should guide and help their children set short-term and long-term goals so that their children have a direction to work towards. When a child has a goal and hope in his mind, he will work hard to achieve it and show perseverance, tenacity and courage. But the goal must be appropriate, and children should be made to understand that the goal cannot be achieved without hard work, but can be achieved with a little effort. Goals that are too difficult or too easy to achieve will not exercise a child's will. In addition, if the goal is reasonable, children should be required to implement it firmly until it is achieved. They should not be compromised or give up halfway.

Independent Activities Act

Young children should be allowed to act independently as much as possible, such as letting them dress themselves, put away their toys, complete their homework, etc. When young children carry out these activities, they have to overcome external difficulties and internal obstacles. It is in the process of overcoming these difficulties that their will is exercised. If the child cannot complete these activities, there is no need to rush to help, but to "wait a while" and let him overcome the difficulties and solve them by himself. When he overcomes difficulties and achieves his goal, he will show a sense of satisfaction of finally winning after hard work. In this process, children's courage and confidence to overcome difficulties will be strengthened.

Overcoming obstacles

A strong will is honed through hard work, and the more difficult the environment, the more it can train one's willpower. Parents should consciously set some obstacles for their children, provide them with opportunities to overcome difficulties, and give them a small slope on the road of life. If all obstacles on the child's path are cleared away, he may be safe now, but in the future he will gradually lose the ability to walk on the bumpy road.

Self-control method

Young children's willpower is developed under the strict requirements of adults and is also the result of their frequent self-control in daily life. Parents should often inspire their children to strengthen self-control. Self-encouragement, self-prohibition, self-commands and self-suggestion are all good forms of will training. For example, when a child finds it difficult to start taking action, you can let him count to "three" or give himself commands: "Be bolder!" "Don't be afraid!" "Hold on a little longer!" etc.