Setting Your Sights

Before we rush into making "achievers" out of our children, it's important to first consider our goals. These skills will be powerful tools for pointing your child toward the bull's eye - the fulfilment of goals in his life. Yet if your "bull's eye' doesn't match his, you may be in a bit of a struggle.


Is your idea of success the same as your child? Maybe yes, maybe no. But before you try very hard to work to bring his idea of success in line with yours, ask yourself, "For whom am I really doing this, and why? Is it for yourself, or for him? Think about these questions for a moment.


The goal of most education systems is to develop a working system for creating productive members of society. It that your goal, or is yours more personal, based on a deeper belief system? Do your children know your goals for them or even their goals for themselves? Have you ever share with them or ask them to share with you?


It is likely you will need to discuss this as a family and commit to agreeing on a few basic goals together.

adapted from "Giving your child the excellence edge"

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