Hello …and welcome back. 

I hope your week is going good for you

…that you are having fun with your family

…and enjoying your kids! 

Remember that this is our “Enjoy Your Kids Month”. 

In a previous post, we talked about how important it is for kids to play …and for you to join in the fun.

We learned that, in addition to being a great way to share your life together, playing with your kids is a major part of raising successful children.

With the Memorial Day weekend coming up, I know that you’ll find the time to play with your kids.

If the weather is nice, go outside and have a picnic.

Invite friends and their kids over for a barbeque

…and watch how your kids play with other kids.

play time for the kids

As every child instinctively knows, play is essential to life.

It brightens the heart and lightens the spirit.

Sadly, most adults have forgotten how to play.

For some ideas of how you can play with your kids, take a look at last week’s post on why it’s important for kids to play.

Let your children be a refresher course for you on how to enjoy life.

Today, I would like to share an article written by one of the authors of “Law of Attraction for Kids”, Winsome Coutts.

Setting Goals for Kids Is Important Too – Discover How Goal Setting Can Help Your Kids

“Ever thought about goal setting for kids?

Goal setting is one of the most important skills that a person can learn, and the earlier this skill is learned, the more chances there are for successful outcomes in a person’s life.

Adults know that goal setting is all about planning, making progress with that plan, and reaching final goals or achievements.

Once a child learns how to do this, they can use this tool for more success in school and at home.

Goal setting for kids will help your children to do well on their school tests and in activities such as sports, music programs or outside academic or arts programs – even at home, and with their personal finances.

Teaching your child how to be a goal setter will give them a sense that they are capable of doing whatever they want to do.

That’s valuable!

How to help your child be a goal setting child

Goal setting for children is basically the same as for adults, with a few caveats.

Because they are young, and not as emotionally or cognitively developed, goals should be smaller and more tangible. The idea with goal setting for kids is to get them started in the life-long frame of mind for thinking, planning and taking action to achieve results.

The basic premises of goal setting remain the same.  You can help your child learn to set goals by working through these steps with him:

Ask, “What do you want to achieve?” – Help your child describe in specific terms something he would like to do that will take some work/planning  (getting an A on his next math test, earning money to purchase a certain kind of bicycle).

Ask, “How will you get there?” – Help him plan out the steps to take and the mini-goals to reach on his way to the ultimate goal  (paying more attention in class and doing his homework, doing odd jobs or chores for neighbors).

Establish accountability  –  Have your child write down what he wants to achieve and what his plan for getting there is.  He can read it each day to help him with personal accountability, and he can share it with you, or another trusted adult to help him stay motivated, inspired and on-track.

Achieve  –  Achievement is not only for the final outcome, but also for the small goals that are met along the way.

Review plan / goals / outcomes  –  Throughout the process and at the end as well, review with your child the plan and how it is going.  Do adjustments need to be made?  How does he feel about his progress and where it is leading?  How was the goal setting experience for him?

If your child does not reach his ultimate goal, talk to him about what he learned on the way.  He still has learned valuable lessons about planning and goal setting, and he’s probably learned about himself.

Encourage him to not give up on dreams that are important to him, but that if one plan doesn’t work, he has to revise the plan and try again.

Teaching your child to be a goal-setting child is one of the best things you can do.

You will be giving him or her, a valuable gift that they will use for their entire lives, empowering them to achieve wonderful things in every area of life.

Goal setting for kids is a skill that will be built on throughout an entire lifetime.

To learn about a fantastic resource on goal setting for kids, go to our raising successful children page.

Winsome Coutts holds a teacher’s certificate in education and has written hundreds of articles on self-development. She has studied with Bob Proctor and John Demartini, popular teachers featured on “The Secret” DVD. She is the passion behind the 4lifehappykids website and is a parent and grandparent.

Winsome is author of “Go for Your Goals” for kids – a set of downloadable e-books that guide your child through the joyful steps of learning visualization, goal-setting and the Law of Attraction. Simple language enhanced with beautiful illustrations and worksheets make these books appealing and motivating. To learn more, visit 4lifehappykids.com

Goal Setting Activities for Kids Designed As “Play Time”

At the beginning of today’s post, I mentioned how important it is for kids to play …and how playing with your kids is a major part of raising successful children.

What if you could play with your kids and teach them how to set goals at the same time?

That would be a great idea …wouldn’t it?

Well, Winsome Coutts and a group of professionals have put together a program, “Law of Attraction for Kids”, to help you do exactly this.

In this program, various goal setting activities for kids are designed to be used during your “play time”.

There’s even an extra bonus that makes it easy for little kids to do their goal setting activities with minimal guidance from busy parents.

BONUS  –  4 Videos  –  “Success Exercises for LITTLE Kids”

goal setting for kids

This Video Training Session is Fun for Kids …and Great for Children Who Are Both Visual As Well as Auditory Learners.

Video #1  –  Visualizing, How to Make a Story Board

Video #2  –  How to Make a Goals Ladder

Video #3  –  My Strategy List for Kids

Video #4  –  What Do You Wish For? – Kid’s Guide

GO HERE to check out the entire Law of Attraction for Kids program.  >>