Self Esteem is an Important Component to Success

Students want to be successful in school, to be liked and accepted, and to feel good about themselves.

Self-esteem is very fragile. When students continually fail or fall behind their peers, they pick up negative statements from those around them. A strong negative internal filter develops that hinders improvement. They feel inferior and are convinced they are dumb.

This negative filter affects everything they do. When parents or teachers say, "You can do it," or "You are smart," the negative filter rejects it and says, "No, I can't." The filter is so strong it transforms positive statements to negative feelings. He feels, "I can't," or "I'm stupid."

This negative filter, combined with weak processing skills, makes learning very difficult. Homework help, tutors, or private schools might produce short-term gains, but the processing skills and the negative filter have not changed.

Think about it, if you had this disadvantage and felt this way about yourself, how would you cope? Many young people spawn behavior problems or just check out. Poor behavior is the wrong way to handle the situation, but it is the hurting student's mechanism to protect himself. Often it is a sub-conscience reaction.

The best way to help students change negative filters to positive ones is to help them succeed. They must have many successes. Our task is to improve all their processing skills in incrementally successful small steps so they can catch on to new concepts faster, remember longer, see and hear better, and improve their analysis skills. When this happens, the negative filter begins to crumble, schoolwork becomes easier and they see that they can keep up. They start to believe in themselves and feel good about themselves.

Learning Solutions of Utah's learning techniques help students believe in themselves. Every exercise and every level of successful achievement erodes the negative filter.

These results can be yours if you call Learning Solutions today!

Call today to find out why your current approach is not working as you would like. Procrastinating the solution assures that your student will fall further behind and that you and teachers will continue to be constantly frustrated with this child. Take action today to find the solution that works, quickly and permanently.

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