Teaching Children Goal Setting
Kids that start ahead, stay ahead. And teaching children goal setting is by far the best way to help them start ahead and secure their future.
As parents, our job is to prepare our children for adulthood. So if we want our children to have a successful, satisfying and happy life then there are some fundamental life skills we need to teach them:
- How to manage personal finances – one of the roots of adult unhappiness and stress, teaching kids about money is one of the best things you can do.
- How to be healthy – we all want our kids to grow up to be fit and healthy. Teach them how to set good health goals.
- How to achieve – teaching children goal setting so they can set goals for life.
- How to manage themselves – motivation, attitude and knowing that they are the only ones that have full control over their destiny.
- How to work with other people – ‘Emotional Intelligence’ (EQ) is the key to their future. Help them develop their EQ .
- Help your child get organized and provide them with a solid foundation for an organized life.
Teaching kids about goal setting involves setting goals in all five of the above critical life skill areas.
And it is never too early or too late to start teaching your kids these vital life skills. By teaching children goal setting, you’ll help them guarantee their future.
Check out the tools in the ToolBOX under the section on “Goal Setting Forms for Kids” – you’ll find a number of basic tools to help your children set and achieve their goals.
And of course, the Life Skills and FREE Life Planning Workbook on this site are just as relevant to your kids as they are to you. Particularly if you have older children, start introducing them to these skills – the sooner they learn them the more they’ll become second nature.
Do you have a story or some advice that could help kids achieve? Write a page on it and help kids get ahead.
Or read these articles by Winsome Coutts:
- How to Raise Happy Kids
- Playing with Your Child – How to Start It, Why It’s So Important
- How Goal Setting can Help Your Kids
- Kids and Goal Setting, Why is it So Important?
