Teach Your Children How to Set Goals

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Setting Goals is an Essential Life Skill

Knowing how to set reasonable goals and striving for them is an important life skill. The earlier you encourage your children to think about what they want to accomplish, short term and long term, the better. Working toward a goal and receiving the reward for achieving it helps them understand how life works. There are rewards and there a consequences. It can also show them that sometimes, regardless of the effort put in, some goals will not be met. The key is to keep going, to continue to try, and in the end there will be more successes than failures.

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.

Setting Goals is the Roadmap to Success

The Path to Success

Goal Setting for Students 

Review by Picky Reader Ann
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Goal Setting for Students

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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

Giving Children the Tools They Need 

Do your children know how to set goals? 

poutine wrote...

fantastic advice for parents.

ReplyPosted April 04, 2009

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ReplyPosted January 12, 2009

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Good advice, good info and good lens. Welcome to the SC Group

ReplyPosted December 11, 2008

 
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