How to Teach Kids About Setting Goals It can become an easy process for a lifetime if kids are taught goal setting at an early stage. They need to be offered a project to make them work on achieving something personal.
Set smart goals. A goal needs to be measurable, specific, realistic and timely in order to be effective. Kids prefer generalizing when it comes to goal setting. For example, one may want to be the best basketball player in the team. What exactly does a goal like this mean? You need to ask them to be specific. Begin with scoring two baskets in each game (or however many; just something measurable!) so that they can keep pushing the barriers to achieve greater goals.
Write down goals. Recent studies show that when goals are written down, the individual is likely to achieve them.
Kids have the habit of choosing goals that just seem impossible to achieve. You need to teach them the meaning of short and long-term goals and give your child reality checks.
Set up review points. You can ask them to write their main goal on the poster and mention the steps they would take for achieving their goal. It is important to help your children have their own checkpoint systems that actually work for them.
A. Learn to set a long-term goal.
B. How is a goal like this measured?
C. Give up goals that are not realistic.
D. This tip is supported by science as well.
E. Goals can never be achieved unless they are written down.
F. It is essential for everybody, especially for kids, to set goals in life.
G. You can also ask them to track their progress once a week or month.
