Goal Setting Kids

Vince Shorb asked:


Steps to creating powerful momentum for your family.

When the entire family is working toward one goal you will be pleasently suprised on how fast you will see results. What’s more, when the entire family unit is working toward financial goals it can be a bonding experience that everyone will appreciate.

Working toward family financial goals brings families closer together. You will find that your family will begin to operate as one unit in order to reach those financial goals. Many top business organizations, sports teams, charities and sororities share common financial goals that bring everyone involved closer together. It works for them so let the power of family financial goals work for you.

What family goals to set.

Family goals should be set for all areas of your life including: health, personal development, spiritual/ religious and life goals. This article will focus on family financial goals; however you can easily adopt the techniques to cover the remaining areas of your life. Once more, each individual person in the family should set their own personal goals and have full support from the family.

By setting family financial goals and working as a family to achieve financial freedom everyone involved gets a sense of purpose and something positive to work toward. Children, parents and other extended members of the family will all benefit from the support of working toward family goals.

How to set family financial goals.

Setting family financial goals begins with identifying objectives that your family wants to accomplish. Take some time to figure out what motivates everyone. Maybe one family member wants a vacation home at the beach, another person wants to retire next year and another member wants to have enough financial security to take a month off each year on family vacations. Find out what everyone dreams about because this will help you understand each others goals and you’ll become closer because of it.

Once you have an understanding of what each family member wants it time to align your goals. Maybe you want to learn more about making investments, want to increase your 401k savings, would like that new car, or just want to have more money for a rainy day. The bottom line is that everyone in the family has to do their part. When everyone works together with a common goal of achieving financial freedom then everyone’s life improves. The ability to set family financial goals and achieve family goals will improve every aspect of you personally and your family as a whole.

Family Financial Goals That Work.

There are effective goal setting techniques available that will allow your family to maximize the effectiveness of your financial goals. One helpful technique to aid in accomplishing your goals is to set them using the S.M.A.R.T method.

- S ‘ Significant & Specific. The more detailed you are able to make your family goals the closer you are to achieving them. This gives you a clear target to shoot for and when you see what you’re aiming at you have a much better chance at hitting the bull’s-eye.

Be sure to make your family financial goals significant. They must mean something to your family so that they are motivated to reach them. Setting a goal of saving for a gallon of gas probably won’t motivate people but if it was to save gas for a weekend trip now that’s another story. Remember kids, teens and young adults are motivated by lifestyle not money. So be sure to relate money to being able to afford the type of lifestyle your family wants to live.

- M - Motivational & Measurable. Family goals need to be measurable so you can celebrate together once you achieve them. This makes goal setting fun and a true bonding experience.

Family financial goals should also motivate each member to attain them. Design goals that motivate and encourage each family member to do their part.

- A - Attainable. Dream huge and be realistic. You can be anything you set out to be; however growing gills so you can swim underwter probably won’t happen.

- R - Results-oriented, Reasons & Related. One way to maximize the effectiveness of your family financial goals is to phrase your goals in the positive. Using results-oriented words like “I accomplished,” “I received,” or “I have”, will direct your mind to focus on the outcome. Focusing on the outcome is one of the key steps to becoming financially free.

Your family financial goals should include the reasons too ‘ would you like money for college, a nice vacation, etc. It’s the reasons behind the goals that make us want to accomplish them. Money doesn’t matter it’s what money brings us that matters.

Family financial goals must relate to each other so the family works as a single unit. Setting powerful family financial goals starts with making sure everyone’s goals are heading in the same direction and not contradicting each other. For instance, if one family member’s goal is taking a family trip to the beach next weekend and another goal is to work that weekend to save more money ‘ those contradict each other.

- T -Time. Its important that your goals have a set deadline in place. Decide on a specific time so you push each other to accomplish them by a certain date.

Take an evening and sit down together for dinner with no interruptions. Get everyone’s dreams, goals and aspirations out. Find a way to align your goals to create a dynamic family that accomplishes goals together. Every goal you set out and accomplish together will bring everyone closer.



Vivian

Reality * His Third Account asked:


So many parents SAY they do, but they don’t act like it. For example, they don’t make sure that their kids read during the summer, or work on their academic weaknesses.

So many parents won’t even discuss the prospect of college for their child. I think the goal of college has to be set in a child’s head starting at a young age.

Do you have educational goals, and do you set aside time when school is not in session for educational activities for your child?

David

Megan asked:


I have goals set for my life. My parents are very, very strict religious. I am a Christian and I believe the Bible, but I do not consider myself religious. Having said that, though I do want to be in the Will of God.

As a kid I was told I was ADD. I know my parents disagree with my goals in life. People tell me I am extrememly intelligent. I am early twenties.
My problem. I fear committment. I have goals set, every time I try to fullfill them I feel guilty.

I am always restless. I have to stay busy, very busy, either studying or doing something physical or I end up very bored.

Since a young kid, I have been extremely restless. Like I am constantly searching for something, with not really knowing what.m

I have a rough background. My dad kicked my mom out when I was 2. I forgot who she was until age 6. Grandfather would lock me in basement and in my room for most of the day, when I was under age 6. My grandfather was physically, mentally, and sexually abusive.
My biological dad was sexually abusive.
He used to get mad at me. Tell me he was leaving, and constantly walk out on me when I was a kid. He would leave me in the house by myself, and not come back for an hour.

Then at age 7 my mom and her new husband got custody of me. Then we moved to another state.

My bio and his family would have nothing to do with me.

My mom was very religious. My step dad was not. I was such a needy kid, that I considered my step my biological dad. Because I wanted a dad so bad. He was horrible. He would play mental games with my head. Was cold. He was verbally, emotionally, and mentally abusive. My parents argued constantly. I watched a LOT of violence in my own home. That at night I would re-dream it.

Now, I am an adult. Trying to get my life together. It is hard. Because I have so many goals, but I do not want to get out of the will of God, and I know my parents disagree with those goals.

Do you think I struggle so much because of my past
One other thing, my step dad used to get mad at me. Tell me he was leaving then walk out on me, and not come back for days. He would tell me it was my fault, and that it was my fault that he and my mom could not get a long.

I am VERY different than other people. People that meet me say how obvious this is.

I am mentally wired different, even though I am highly intelligent. I **** the same old same old. The medioc of society.

My mom wonders if part of my problem is because right after I was born the doctors put me on phenabarbitol. It turned me purple and I almost died. They put me on it due to a misdiagonsis.

As a baby, my mom says I hated to be held and would push away. Many times I would just stare off. I did that a lot as kid, just stared off.
My mom wonders if this somehow affected my mind.

Do you think so? It is dead obvious that I think different and am different than most people. To the point it bothers me.
It is like I think so fast, that my mind is racing. Sometimes it is so bad, that I stutter in my speech. Do you think it is because of the medicine they gave me as a kid?

I struggle with commitment, being content in living in one place. It is like this, I watch people, they go to school, then go to college, get married, and live in the same place all their life and do the same thing. It is like everyone does this.
I am never content with the same old, same old.

Is this from being ADD, or something else?

Elizabeth

Stephanie S asked:


1. The first step to planning a child care center is to

A. develop your program philosophy.
B. determine the nature of the need for child care facilities in your community.

C. establish goals for the children, parents, staff, and community.

D. determine which method of teaching you’ll use.

2. Which of the following best describes why you need to establish goals for your program?

A. Goals will let parents know the philosophy of your program.
B. Goals tell the community how much they can gain from your program.

C. Goals are essential for the children to follow so they may be successful in your program.

D. Goals are set to help you understand what it is that you want to accomplish.

3. Philosophy in a child care program is

A. the basis for developing your basic curriculum or program plans.
B. understanding normal child growth and development.

C. how you’ll go about accomplishing your goal.

D. a list of policy considerations for parents to follow.

4. Of the following models of education, which one is more in use than all of the other models combined?

A. Developmental-interaction
B. Cognitive

C. Behavior learning

D. Eclectic or traditional

Juan

Saint asked:


Why do parents want their child to follow the same goal as they did, while not accepting and supporting their childs own goals of what they really want out of life.

Like let’s say if a child want’s to do something else like go to a community college where they can transfer and go to a major college that they want to go to. But, somwone like let’s say their mother don’t want them to go to that school and instead, wants them to go to a trade school and get a degree from there, especially when the mother had been to that type of school and done that at that type of school.

What i’n really saying is that some parents don’t want their child to do something different that really makes them happy and what they really want out of life and not supporting them for it. But, instead wants them to do something what the parent has set for them or want them to do which their child is not really interested in doing and what doesn’t makes them happy.

Why, are parents are like that?

Antoine

bardcrest asked:


Okay so you have your son or daughter clinging to the edge of the pool. You walk a bit of the ways into the pool and you tell them to swim to you. As soon as they let go of the pool edge, you start backing up making it harder and harder for your child to reach you. I have come to two conclusions:
1. You like giving your child a sensation that they are drowning while accomplishing nothing towards their goal.
2. You think that they won’t notice the fact that you are making it harder and harder to accomplish the goal you set for them.

So which is it? Or is there some factor that makes up for the emotional scarring you are doing to a young child?
I mean what is the difference between a parent doing that and a schoolyard bully grabbing someone’s glasses and holding them above the person’s head just out of reach? In both cases you are taunting the other person that they will always be so close to accomplish the goal but never quite make it.
No I am not dumb. As for the distance motivating a child to learn to swim, I will concede that there is some logic in that. About as much as choking someone motivates them to learn to fight better.
This is sort of like someone asking me how much a piece of candy is and everytime they give me the amount that I ask for, stating that the candy costs more.

I am not a parent but I have taught a child to swim without the aid of floatees. I stooded in one place and had her swim out to me. Each time I would do it I would get a little farther away. I did not try to convince her that she only needed to go a short distance when she would end up going a longer distance.

No I do not think anyone is going to let a child drown. But the child does not know that. All they know is that they are barely staying afloat in the water and try as they must their teacher or guardian never seems to get any closer.

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As for whether a parent would laugh at failure. Well yeah my mother found it rather amusing when I finally caught on and refused to swim towards her if she moved.

Jamie

Ash asked:


Last week my boyfriend moved to Georgia to see his kids and work to get him his own place (we were living with my parents) He wants me to move up there but the problem is that i’m 16 and he is 21 and my mother isn’t going for it, i am not going to drop out or get pregnant i have set goals for myself and want to make my dreams come true. I don’t want to leave my mother and sister because it would hurt them but i’m in love ( we have been together 3 years) and don’t want to live the rest of my life wondering what it would have been is i would have moved in with him, you know? What should I do really…

Donte