How to Help Your Child Reach Goals

Goal setting with pictures fit together like fun and laughter. Both end with feelings of joy and contentment. Yet many grown-ups don’t experience this. They fail to turn their dreams into goals. Don’t let this become your child’s fate. Childhood is the best time to teach your child the tools for setting goals.

“Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.” - Anthony Robbins

The Parenting Tip – How to Picture the Goal:

To make her goal visible, teach your child to mentally picture what she sees as she looks outward from herself. Tell her to do this mental picturing as if she is accomplishing her goal right now. Let’s examine this parenting tip further.

The Parenting Strategy – An Example for Picturing the Goal:

If your Katie wants to learn how to dive, pretend you are sharing this conversation:

"Katie, what would you see before you dive off the diving board?"

"I'd see my feet and the water."

"What if you tucked your head in toward your body?"

 

Katie Sees Her Feet and the Water.

"I'd see the water and my feet on the edge of the diving board."

"Picture the water and picture your feet on...

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Find out how your child can reach  goals with pictures. So easy. You'll also receive a gift - How to Turn Your Child's Self-Beliefs from "I Can't" to "I CAN!" You'll find your gift at the bottom of the article.

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Parents Can Raise Naturally Curious Children

Kids with curious mindsets are bound to enjoy interesting lives. As parents you can nurture wonder and a thirst for knowledge in your youngsters. In today's parenting gift you will receive a checklist of 10 ways to boost your child's intellectual curiosity.

You Will Find Out What To:

1. Say when your child asks about a topic.
2. Answer when you want to promote his questions.
3. Do to encourage his enthusiasm.

 

Curious Learners Search for Answers

Some parents do to much to help. Others show little or no interest. Being balanced in your words and actions is the key. It's fun too.

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Add it to a binder to refresh your memory whenever you need to help your child's curiosity grow.

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Parents Can Promote Curiosity in Kids

How do we keep the wonderful curiosity that crawling babies possess alive?

They creep toward toys, put objects in their mouths, pull on mom’s earrings. Everything is interesting to them. But they can lose it.

 

Babies Explore with Delight

I remember a frustrated second grade teacher asking me to observe 3 of her students. None of them would try. "I don’t know," was their only answer to the easiest of questions. I knew something had happened between infancy and childhood because their curiosity spark had died. Parents, don’t let this happen to your children. There are solutions.

 

Find Out How to Get Kids Excited about Learning Again

In this article you’ll find how to keep your child’s enthusiasm alive with:

1. 10 questions that encourage a passion for seeking answers.
2. 10 ways to promote learning and 7 ways to block interest.
3. 9 self-talk mottoes to increase your child’s wonder.
4. 1 poem, ‘The Uncurious Kid’ who changed his life using Google

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   Curious Kids Want to Learn

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Chore Coupons Are Loved by Parents

PARENTS, IF YOUR CHILD COULD GIVE LOVING GIFTS WITH NO-COST COUPONS, would he do it?

Today’s parenting gift is a set of coupons. Your youngster, of any age, can give them to those he loves. In fact, you could use them too.

Types of gift certificates include work coupons, fun activities, and caring compliments. Simply put, your child can fill his awards for others with helpful chores, games to play together, or a list of loving compliments.

3 Rules for Caring Coupons - Your Child Must:

1. Be able to do them.
2. Promise to do them within a time limit.
3. Give something the receiver would like.

Who Will Receive Your Child’s Gift Awards?

It’s up to your child and here are 5 possibilities:

• Parents
• Siblings
• Grandparents
• Relatives
• Friends

Brainstorm with Your Child What She Could Give.

 

Giving Gift Coupons with a Loving Spirit

Write down some possibilities she’d like to do depending on her age:

Work coupons could include:

• Fold laundry
• Fix a dinner salad
• Weed a flower bed

Fun activities could include:

• Play a board game together
• Create a treasure hunt
• Bake cookies

Loving words could include:

• Drawing a picture of the receiver. Then add loving words in the title. 
• Writing down 5 loving compliments about the receiver.
• Asking the receiver to tell her 3 stories about the recipient's childhood. This could include coupons for Mom, Dad, Grandma, or Grandpa.

Brainstorming includes gifts your child can offer like teaching magic tricks, playing a musical instrument, or special art work. Whatever your child has a special talent for could be a gift.

 

Download Your Coupons

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