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.

Setting Goals is the Roadmap to Success
The First Step
Learning how to set goals is a gift that will last a lifetime.
Set up a Plan
Meauring Success
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
Goal Setting for Students
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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.
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Do your children know how to set goals?
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- AndyPo AndyPo Dec 11, 2009 @ 8:01 am
- Great advice
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- Pukeko Pukeko Sep 22, 2009 @ 4:01 pm
- My girls set goals for sport. Good idea for a lot more. Thanks.
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- poutine poutine Apr 4, 2009 @ 4:53 pm
- fantastic advice for parents.
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- poddys poddys Mar 2, 2009 @ 7:24 am
- Very good lens, 5*****. Love the layout, it makes the modules really stand out.
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- EverythingMouse EverythingMouse Feb 22, 2009 @ 5:35 pm
- Great lens - Iook forward to seeing more from you on Squidoo!
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