Parents can boost a child's confidence by asking for the child's advice on a challenge the parent is facing.

“as a parent asking my daughter for advice that boosted her confidence and I think that this is um I've come to call this the coach effect uh it's one of my favorite recent findings in Psychology that uh when when you're struggling with something um your instinct is to go to somebody else for advice and say I need guidance the problem is that keeps you in a passive frame of mind uh it makes you feel like you're dependent on others what you're better off doing is finding somebody else with a similar Challenge and giving them advice”