Goal Setting for Kids

Goal Setting with your Kids - Tip of the Day!

When goal setting with your kids, it's a good idea to encourage them to draw pictures of their goal or find and cut pictures out of magazines. Scrap booking is fun for kids of most ages anyway, but just think how much extra momentum they will have if they are constantly drawing or seeking out pictures to remind them of how great it will be when they have achieved their goal!

Even tiny kids can enjoy pictorial goal setting. When they are too young to write, what better way to introduce goal setting than to encourage kids to find and enjoy pictures that represent what they want to achieve. As always with young children, remember to keep the timescales appropriate. A goal could be as simple and immediate as wanting to go the park and feed the ducks this afternoon ... by helping a small child visualize and plan a goal like that, perhaps with a step that says "I'm going to get ready to go out and help put on my own coat and shoes", you are setting up a success mechanism where he or she is learning ... I want something ... I'm willing to do what it takes to get it (in this case, put on my coat without a fuss and maybe do up my own laces) ... then I successfully achieve my goal.

It might sound tiny or even silly, but these little introductions to goal setting will grow with you and your child!

Happy goal setting with your kids!

Cassie
KidsGoals

What is a Mother worth???

They say you can't put a price on a Mother but recently I read an article that said that a Mother does have an actual dollar figure worth. If you take into consideration all that a Mother does;

• Raising children- A full time Nanny
• Keeping house - A full time Maid or Housekeeper
• Cooking meals- A Chef
• Kiss the boo-boos and make everyone better when they are sick- A Nurse
• Manage Family Finances- A Bookkeeper
• Transport children to sports activities, Dance, Dr. and Dentist Appointments- A Chauffeur
• Help a child with homework- A Teacher

I could go on and on but you get the picture. So taking into consideration of all that a Mother does, no weekends off a financial firm came up with the conclusion that based on 17 professions a Mother's worth in US Dollars is drum roll please...........$635,700 per year or nearly $53,000 a month.
Monicka

Goal Setting for Kids - Intangible goals?

Goal setting for Kids - Intangible goals?

What to do if your kid sets a goal like "I want Joey Smith to be my best friend"? A goal like that isn't necessarily all that healthy. Maybe I'm wrong to call it an "intangible" goal as it's certainly very specific - which is supposed to be good for goal setting.

But it depends too much on things outside your child's control. What if Joey already has a best friend ... or if he moves away?

When teaching our kids goal setting maybe we need to emphasize that our goals need to be defined in terms that enable us to be in control, at least largely, of whether we reach them or not.

A better goal might be, to be the kind of kid that everyone wants to be friends with?!

What do YOU think?

Cassie
Goal Setting for Kids