How you see, what you hear and how you feel about daily events rests solely in your ability to relate to or recall a similar event in your memory.  Remember the "telephone" game when you were a child?  You and your friends sat around a circle and one person whispered something to the person next to him or her.  By the time the "conversation" got back around to the beginning of the circle, it usually didn't resemble what was originally said.  

As children, playing a game, this was funny.  As a child or adult who just wants someone to "hear" them, to really listen to what they have to say - this becomes a daily source of frustration.  If you feel that no one values your opinion or what you have to say, your self-esteem or feelings of self-worth suffer.  This is especially true with children.  

At birth, a child's brain is much like a sponge.  It absorbs everything that is seen, heard or felt.  By the time the child reaches 5 or 6 years old, they have already placed a value on themselves based on this information.  This value will remain with the child all the way into adulthood unless steps are taken to rewrite those memories.  

If  someone offered you a sum of money, based on your self worth, would your account be in the red or black ?