One question that every parent or a teacher should ask herself, "Do the child have his own Identity?" Healthy Identities help children to know themselves better and reach the goal they want. Children reveal their identities as they make their own choice - choosing dress, colours, food, friends they associate with, activities they prefer, etc.

When children pick up activities in the class, teachers know the choice selection - some like drawing, some crafts or some kids prefer, reading. It is important to develop an emotional string with children and ask them questions on what they like - eg. games or drawing. You will find their reasons for choosing the activitiy. Listen to your child's ideas and support his choice without any judgement. Some children have complexes. Some are superior and some have inferiority complex. All needed is love and understanding. The child is not born with an Identity but the environment and especially, by observing, playing and working with others, older and younger than themselves, that they discover what they do and what they can do. It is a gradual process of embedding into the child, the cultural and moral, social values of parents' culture or influence and shaping by training offered by parents and teachers. Here's more you can find on Building Identitites on Scholastic and Kaboose and even through Kidsfreesouls Google Search here.

Btw, it was Hellen Keller's who made a unique Identity in spite of being Blind. She even became a lecturer and Author in her life. Here's a note extract on her as her Birthday just celebrated:

Helen Keller (Adams) was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama on 27th June 1880 - An American author and lecturer, who, having overcome considerable physical handicaps, she served as an inspiration for other afflicted people. When 19 months old, she was stricken with a severe illness that left her deaf and blind. No way could be found to educate her until her seventh year, when she began her special education in reading and writing with Anne Mansfield Sullivan, later Macy, of the Perkins Institute for the Blind. She quickly learned to read by the Braille system and to write by means of a specially constructed typewriter. She later became a Lecturer and an Author.  Her writings include The Story of My Life (1903), The World I Live In (1908), Out of the Dark (1913), Midstream-My Later Life (1930), Let Us Have Faith (1940), Teacher: Anne Sullivan Macy (1955), and The Open Door (1957). Her life is the subject of a film, The Unconquered (1954) and a play, The Miracle Worker (1960; made into an award-winning film in 1962), by the American author William Gibson.