Building self-esteem

Giving your child a compliment should be simple, but some young people have a tendency to take things the wrong way. To help your child understand when someone is genuinely admiring or praising them, share our Cracking Compliments video and action checklist with them.

If you suffer from low confidence and self-esteem, your negativity could have a knock-on effect on your child. Use our action checklist to cut out self-criticism – and give your child’s body confidence a boost, too.

Our Confident Me body-confidence teaching materials explore influences on young people's body image and self-esteem. 

It's a shocking fact that eight out of 10 girls are so concerned about body image that they opt out of important life activities. 

Working with experts qualified in the fields of psychology and sociology is an important part of making real change for real people – which is why we work with experts in the field, on everything we do, from creating our biggest projects to writing our latest articles. Here are some of the expert partners who help us to build self-esteem boosting programmes and projects.