“A child’s ‘lifelong self-esteem’ begins in elementary school.”
The strength to do well in 12 years of school life comes from elementary self-esteem!
A story about self-esteem in the classroom from 14-year veteran teacher Otuki.

With approximately 15,000 blog subscribers and over 1,500 post scraps, the elementary school self-esteem class by veteran teacher and elementary school mom Otuki Sam has finally been published.
Ottuk-sam, a field expert who has worked as an elementary school teacher for 14 years and a veteran mother raising elementary school children, shares the importance of self-esteem in elementary school children and specific know-how to help them develop self-esteem, focusing on episodes that can be seen in actual classrooms.
There are many people besides mothers who can help a child with their studies, but a child's self-esteem is different.
Neither schools nor academies manage children's self-esteem.
Ultimately, the family must be the main body in raising self-esteem.
This book is packed with specific and practical ways to help children build self-esteem at home through various cases that occur at school.


“Teacher, my classmate is teasing me by calling me stupid!” Even when children hear the same teasing, their reactions are different.
Some children burst into tears, while others just ignore it as if it were nothing serious.
The same is true when faced with poor test results.
Some children take low test scores for granted, saying, "I'm just a kid who can't do it, I'm a kid who shouldn't do it," while others are determined, saying, "This isn't the end, I can do it!"
Behind the different reactions each child shows is the child's self-esteem.
The least parents can do for their children entering elementary school is to help them build self-esteem.
Elementary self-esteem classes that nurture children's lifelong self-esteem are starting now.

There are many people besides mothers who can help their children with their studies.
Studying is done at school and at academies.
Forming study habits and managing grades do not necessarily have to be done by the mother.
But self-esteem is different.
There are places that manage children's grades, but there are no places that manage children's self-esteem.
Ultimately, the family must be the main body in raising self-esteem.
A child's self-esteem develops at school, but the roots of self-esteem are found in the home.
Friends and teachers have a significant influence on children, but the people who have the most decisive influence are the family members who are always with the child at home, and among them, the people who are closest to the child.

--- p.5

Since self-confidence is one of the pillars of self-esteem, experiences of accomplishment are important to children in many ways.
But what is more powerful than the success achieved by doing what your mother tells you to do or the results achieved by what your teacher tells you to do is the achievement you achieve through your own efforts.
A first grader can accomplish more than you might imagine.
What if they were in sixth grade? There was almost nothing they couldn't do on their own.
Sometimes they are even better than me, the teacher.
If our child is still immature, it may be because he or she has not had many opportunities to try things on his or her own.
Let's give the child a chance to do it.
For the sake of your child's self-esteem, you should give them opportunities to do things for themselves rather than doing them for them.
--- p.29

Mothers try to relieve their anxiety by doing things for them, but as time goes by, mothers become the problem solvers and the children become dependent.
A dependent child cannot grow.
How can you possibly learn to walk if you carry your child around in fear of falling?
If you give people a chance to fall, they will learn how to get up.
To develop the strength to get up when you fall, you must learn how to face problems from elementary school age.
A child's mistake is just a mistake, and it's not that important of a problem.
It is greedy to expect a child to do everything perfectly without fail during his or her school years.
Self-esteem is the belief that you can do something on your own, and it grows as you achieve it on your own.

--- p.74

What should a mother do when her child says they don't want to go to school because their friends tease and bully them? Should she tell them to ignore it, saying it's just kidding? That's not right.
Hatred for a friend cannot be a joke.
Children who cannot tell right from wrong will copy what their friends tease them about.
If teasing out of disgust becomes a cultural thing among children, it can continue year after year.
The child has no power to change the situation.
Parents must actively intervene to prevent group hatred from leading to bullying.
We must break the chain that leads to ‘dislike → disgust → culture of exclusion → continued rejection → ostracism.’

--- p.
126

This is a fear that is particularly evident in students with little reading experience.
The overall Korean language comprehension ability, including reading comprehension, is low.
It may not cause problems in daily life, but it may cause difficulties in learning.
Because they do not understand the problem itself, it affects their academic achievements not only in Korean but also in other subjects.
In order to build a child's confidence and further increase his or her self-esteem, writing skills must be developed.
Instead of forcing yourself to write, try using transcription.
By experiencing the process of filling a white paper with black while writing, you can overcome your fear of blank paper.

--- p.221