Confidence is something we all aspire to. The confidence to speak our mind, the confidence to take the risk, the confidence to trust our instinct. But what exactly is confidence? According to Dr Becky Kennedy, Clinical Psychologist, confidence is self-trust. Confidence is the ability to trust ourselves, trust our instincts, trust that we are making the right decisions. When we don’t understand something to trust that that is OK and put our hand up, when something doesn’t feel right to trust our instinct and take the relevant action. This is what we want for ourselves and this is what we want for our children. But how do we get there and how do we support our children to get there. We start with small moments. When our child comes homes from school in tears and explains to us that they feel sad because they were picked last for the football team what is our default - to immediately make them feel better. ...