Childlike Confidence

 

During our recent teacher training session for the Helen O’Grady Midrand and Pretoria franchises, one of our own teachers turned motivational speaker, Maryka Roux from ButtonUp shared these truly inspirational ideas about how we, as teachers, can help our students become and remain more confident. As it is with most of Maryka’s motivational talks, one just can’t help feeling stronger and ready to tackle the new year with super enthusiasm!

We couldn’t help but share…Hope you also feel like a confident, smashing, amazing human being!

“You are here – YOU ARE A TEACHER - because you are strong, confident and able to be a teacher that enables children to also understand that they are confident smashing amazing human beings!

Being confident is not just about not being shy; being confident is about understanding and embracing who you are and being the best version of yourself to enlighten others’ lives and we teach children to understand that confidence. Because if they are not confident in who they are, they will not be able to be confident portraying someone they are not. They must know who they are first so that they do not loose themselves in their character.

I am confident that we can do that – but the only way we can do that is if we know who we are and let go of the things that described us otherwise, if we go back to our original design of innocence and purity and fun and laughing at random things and not stressing about money and education, because all of the things that has crept in with being students or adults has stripped us from being kids.

So just as we teach children to be mature in who they are, we have to learn to be childish in who we are not. The more we become childlike the more they can relate. Keep your confidence in who you are but get rid of the scars. And finally, we need to stay confident in who we are whilst being children at heart.

How do we do that?  By having CONFIDENCE:

C – CHILDLIKE

O – Only one of you - Own who you are/ Obliviousness

N – Never lose yourself (even when you are acting)

F – FUN / Free, have fun with the kids but also have fun in life – laugh at your own jokes 

I – individuality is important

D – don’t demand respect deserve it and dress up and dance (3 D’s)

E – every child is important including your heart – look after yourself so that you can look after them (equality)

N – notice every child and everything around you – be in awe

C – Care and show you care

E – Excellence – do everything as if it’s for the last time”

                                                   With Thanks to Maryka Roux and Button-UP!

What a fabulous day of Training we had....we are so lucky to work with such dynamic and awesome human beings!

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                                                        The 2020 Pretoria and Midrand TEAM!!!!