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Are you Using the Right Criteria to Measure Your Self-Worth?
The things you think matter might not count for anything at all
5 min readJan 31, 2021
How do you determine your self-worth? Is it how much money you have? The fact that you can fit into skinny jeans? A great job and a Mercedes? It’s an interesting question. Most of us just have a vague notion of whether or not we should love ourselves given our circumstances in life.
A good thing to consider is how you think your child should measure their self-worth. Do you think a child should love themselves more or less if they were:
● Wealthy or poor?
● More or less attractive than the average person?
● Failed more times than they were successful?
● Succeeded more times than they failed?
Would you consider any of these to be a reason for a child to love themselves more or less? What criteria would you use?
