Jason Wynkoop, Clinical Director of EDGE Learning and Wellness Collegiate Community in Chicago, spoke to Woodbury and co-host Liz McGhee on the Parent Choices for Struggling Teens radio show about the meaning of searching for real self-esteem for adolescents. The host of the L.A. Talk Radio show, Lon Woodbury, is an independent educational consultant who has worked with families and struggling teens since 1984. The show's co-host, Elizabeth McGhee, is the Director of Admissions and Referral Relations at Sandhill Child Development Center, with over 19 years' of clinical, consulting and referral relations experience. The show 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.
Self-esteem, Jason pointed out, had to be earned via trial-and-error. When doting parents overprotect or lavish undeserved appreciation on their kids, they do more harm than good. Children often feel really baffled and angry when real life encounters uncover their limitations. At EDGE Learning and Wellness Collegiate Community in Chicago, mothers and fathers are advised about how they can encourage their children in sensible ways, and students, in turn, are shown how to provide for themselves, handle problems, appreciate their own performance in activities, and concentrate on establishing their real talents. So, searching for real self-esteem is based on realistically creating 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.
Self-esteem, Jason pointed out, had to be earned via trial-and-error. When doting parents overprotect or lavish undeserved appreciation on their kids, they do more harm than good. Children often feel really baffled and angry when real life encounters uncover their limitations. At EDGE Learning and Wellness Collegiate Community in Chicago, mothers and fathers are advised about how they can encourage their children in sensible ways, and students, in turn, are shown how to provide for themselves, handle problems, appreciate their own performance in activities, and concentrate on establishing their real talents. So, searching for real self-esteem is based on realistically creating 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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