All or Nothing

<font face="Comic Sans MS" font color="FF33FF">Changing self-defeating thoughts requires cognitive restructuring of thought processes in the brain. One way to help your child do this is to talk the child through the experience. For example: if the child says, "Everyone thinks I´m stupid." You respond with, "What makes you think that?". The child might say, "Because everyone was laughing when I answered a question wrong in class." You then say, "How did that make you feel?" The child says, "Terrible!" You say, "Okay, let´s think of some reasons the other kids might have been laughing and write them down."