Leaders are not born but are trained to be one. This is especially true if they are developed with the correct leadership qualities since young. Parents play an important role in this task.
In fact, being a good leader is not tough. To start, cultivate reading habits in them. Reading not only helps in improving their language skills and communication skills but also teaches them moral values. This indirectly helps to boost their confidence in socializing with other people. They also learn to think positively and would be able to solve matters on their own while learning to do things in a systematic manner.
Make your children believe in themselves and accept themselves as who they are. Let them know that they should not bow to peer pressure but they should have the integrity to protect themselves. Make them understand that they would need to compromise for others and the reasons of doing so in order to you’re your children appreciate what they have. Meanwhile, make them take responsible of their own actions and make them learn to do simple things on their own too. From a very tender age, teach them to listen instead of getting rage and shouting.
Let them experience different activities be it from solo or in groups especially in competitions to encourage them to express themselves and face the result be it whether they win or loose, boost their confidence by giving advices which help them to do better or improve more on the next round. Involve them with different people from all life of works for a better exposure.
You may try to treat them as a leader by designing opportunities at home for them or discuss on situations that arises at anywhere be it from school to the news. Leadership training is another alternative which can be implemented on your child but when you think they are mature enough to attend.
Don’t forget to set as an example to your children as they will get motivated when they hear true incidence happening especially to their own parents. You may also want to introduce to your child other leaders to enable them to pick a mentor for them to emulate. You would never know you could end up being the one they are emulating! Wondering how you would know the results? Look out for signs like having their friends seeking for your child’s opinions or your child got selected as the class leader or captain in a team or your child is being accused of being bossy and got disciplined for being a distraction in class!