How do you help your daughter to become more confident?

I agree with your views. We must infuse self-confidence and ability to fight all odds in life, besides taking decisions herself, in our daughter. Good Post!

The best way for any kid to learn self confidence and self respect is for her father to show them respect and love for their mother. The next best way is to teach them that there are things in this world more important than themselves, but no single person is more important than them. The last 2 things are what parents need to learn. At around the age of 16 there really isn't a whole lot left to teach them, other than teaching them to think for themselves and stand for what they truly believe. Unfortunately, if you start this lesson too soon, you set them up for failure, but if you start it too late, you discourage them from ever really learning the lesson. Also, no matter what you have taught your kids, there will come a time when they have to decide for themselves. That being true, it's still important for you to teach them your values. If you don't, all you have taught them is that values aren't very important. As for being more sociable, encourage her to join social and academic clubs, but let her decide which ones to try. I wish you and your daughter all the best, and I hope you have as much fun watching her grow into her own, like my wife and I got to do with our 4 kids.

Maybe she's an observer and likes to watch and not be in the thick of things. You can talk to her and ask her. I feel it's not important to push her if she doesn't want to do it. You have appreciated her good qualities and know her as a sweet, kind-hearted and sensitive girl. That is what is important. Ask her why she doesn't speak up when she has an opinion. She probably doesn't want to argue when her opinion is different. As long as she is honest with herself, I guess you should let her be. But a frank talk would help you to understand your daughter better.

Find something she is good in or wants to do and let her be with kids her age who have the same interests. If it is something she is really good in she will gain confidence. Of course some kids are just quiet by nature and it has nothing to do with confidence.

Hello and god evening. I have a daughter 20 years old. She moved from home for about 8 month ago. Living on the same street as me and her brother. I noticed the same thing with my daughter in her early teens. However, instead of telling no to everything she wanted to do I listen to her and what she had to say. I said I will think about this, and come back. After a couple of day´s I went back to her and gave her my thoughts about it, some different respective on the issue we had. Then I said to her, you make your own decision and even if I did not like this I knew it was the best way to get what I wanted. But I taught her to make her own judgment and gave her a better confident and it made her more self shore of what she could do and not do. We had and still have god relationship with no or less conflicts. And her friends do wonder why sometimes. I think it is important to let go, but you help out to get what you want without any big conflicts. I hope this help a bit anyway. Being a teen is not easy and today with all the must do things even for kids it is harder and harder. It is easy to lose your self confidence. You can do so much as a mum. And just by letting them make their own judgment can do much.