Child therapist shares easy way to ensure your child’s inner voice is full of confidence

Whether you like it or not, what you say to your children will become their inner voice, and how they’ll perceive themselves throughout the rest of their lives. 

Luckily for us, child therapist and mom to three girls, Jess at @nurturedfirst shared an incredibly easy way for parents to ensure their children’s inner voice is confident and full of self-love. 

All we need is our child’s favorite stuffie. 

Most of us had a favorite stuffie growing up—someone who we told all of our secrets to, who we loved so much, and who we carried around with us always. What if your parents talked to your stuffie like you did, and they shared how awesome and loved your stuffed BFF thought you were? 

Jess recommends talking to your child’s stuffed animals about them—but not in a “mean girls” way of course. 

Her parents did this for her when she was a child and it had a profound impact. She did turn out to be a child therapist after all. Her parents would say things like, “Oh, Bunny, you’re so silly. You think you love her the most. I love her even MORE!!” according to her TikTok.

“As a child, I would sit there and smile as I overheard my parents say nice things about me,” Jess shared.

“By overhearing them share good things about me, I started to believe these things were true,” Jess shared in the video. 

Jess did this with her daughter and her friend, “Coco the bear,” and she whispered, “Did you hear how brave she was at the doctor? No? Let me tell you…” and she says she saw her daughter’s face light up and her body posture changed. 

Especially these days, our children need all the happiness, confidence, and self-love they can get these days. And it all starts with us, their parents, to ensure their innervoice and sense of self-worth is positive, and as wonderful as we know they are.