With everything in life, balance is key. Children need balance just as well as adults do, this has to do with everything in life. The same thing goes for confidence in children and self esteem in kids. While lacking confidence in kids, this is obviously bad for a child but parents may not realize it can be bad going to the other extreme as well. A child with too much self esteem can be just as damaged as a child with little or no self esteem. One may be wondering what can happen to a child who carries a high level of self esteem into adulthood? Let’s take a look!

Causes of Too Much Self Esteem

When it comes to the causes of instilling too much self esteem into your child, you may not even know you are doing so. Some of the causes include giving your child far too much praise such as for simple things that they really don’t need to be rewarded for. Parents have high expectations for their children but this may cause them to become overachievers which is not very healthy either. Whether it is with the grades they get at school or in sports, if they have too much of self esteem, they will always feel the need to be at the top. In general the causes of too high a level of self esteem comes from unearned high esteem, being overly concerned with ourselves as this is what our parents have taught us, and lastly, sometimes it could just be a child’s personality and how they are.

Outcomes of a Child with Too Much Self Esteem

A child who was raised with too much self esteem can end up full of themselves. People with high levels of self esteem are typically categorized as being conceited or arrogant. They can also appear as being overbearing and overly assertive. They do not know humility because regardless of what they do, they don’t feel that they do much of anything wrong in order to even be humiliated. This will overall impact how others deal with them, and how they make decisions and see themselves. Relationships may be difficult because others may not want to be around such a person.

So you can see that too high of self esteem can be just as damaging as a child without or lacking self esteem. The key is finding just the right balance which is considered to be healthy self esteem.

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