• Give your child frequent, specific, positive praise.
  
  
• Encourage risk taking.
  
  
• Appreciate, value and enjoy your child.
  
  
• Let your child know she is capable and that you'll be there to help her.
  
  
• Focus on your child's strengths.
  
  
• Encourage your child's contribution to family life.
  
  
• Teach your child to accept a compliment with eye contact and a simple "thank you".
  
  
• Help your child become progressively more independent.
  
  
• Allow for mistakes.
  
  
• Show your love by doing thoughtful things for her.
  

Adapted from Kathleen Dore-Boyce's address to parent body of Charles Armstrong School, August 1994.