Teach Your Children How to Set Goals
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Setting Goals is an Essential Life Skill
Teaching your children how to set goals is a gift that will last a lifetime. With each step toward adulthood and every goal reached adds to their confidence and self-esteem. They begin to realize that they are in control of their destiny. The world will not be handed to them on a silver platter, but through hard work and effort, the sky's the limit.
Contents at a Glance
Setting Goals is the Roadmap to Success
The Path to Success
Goal Setting for Students
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Goal Setting for Students
Amazon Price: $11.86 (as of 07/11/2009)
Goal Setting for Students is a nice, 68 page book that will help every parent get his or her child started on goals and achievement. The layout is simple and easy-to-read, and each chapter offers questions, with do-able and interesting activities, plus a final review at the end to recap what was taught. The book encourages children and teens (the book is for 5-12 graders) to invest in themselves, and why.
The First Step
Help your child determine what they want to achieve. Be sure it's something they want, not something you want. We can encourage them to explore different ideas but if the goal is not something your child really wants, he may give up before he even starts.
Learning how to set goals is a gift that will last a lifetime.
Set up a Plan
The plan, as with the goal, has to be age appropriate. A small child will not be able to focus on a goal that will take years to achieve. Short term goals are better. Once the goal is met, build on the success with another goal.
Measuring Success
How to measure success is different for everyone. When my son joined the cross-country team in high school, he knew he would not be winning any races. He wasn't a fast runner. His goal was to finish the race, even if he came in dead last. He loved to run and that's what mattered.
Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
Lou Holtz
Help Them Develop the Skills they Need
Teach your children how to set goals and develop a plan for reaching them. It is a gift beyond price. As they grow, their ability to set goals and figure out how to reach them will grow as well. It will help them in school and in extra-curricular activities such as music and sports. "I can't do it! It's too hard," will not be a regular part of their vocabulary.Give your children the tools they need to succeed.
Confident Children are Happy Children
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Do your children know how to set goals?
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