Posts Tagged ‘goal setting’
How to create your best school year ever
How to create your best school year ever School in 2020 is definitely a new adventure. Some schools are virtual. Others are meeting as usual but with many new procedures in place to keep students and staff safe and healthy. Despite the changes and uncertainty around us, what can we do to get off to…
Read MoreKids and vision boards
Kids and Vision Boards If there is one activity that is always a hit with kids, it’s creating a vision board. I’ve used vision boards as a way to create focus for kids around different topics such as goal setting or determining an intention for the next season. A great way to set an intention…
Read MoreThe secret to helping students develop grit
Kids and Grit You are barely into the school year and already you have a sense about which students will be successful and which ones will be slackers… don’t you? Are you usually right? How do you know? What are the characteristics of the children who stay the course and succeed? How are they different…
Read MoreHow to Raise a Resilient Child
The Positive Side to Challenging Situations What does your child do when faced with a challenging situation? Give Up Find an adult to fix the problem Attempt to solve the problem What is resilience? It is the ability to recover from difficulties. What are the key factors in developing resilience? Here’s what we know about…
Read MoreThe secret sauce to setting and achieving goals
Secret Sauce to Goal Setting What does the child in your life wish for in the new year? score a winning run for their baseball team? make an A in algebra? make a new friend? a pony? As we look toward the new year, it is always a good time to teach children about goal…
Read MoreKids and vision boards
Kids and Vision Boards If there is one activity that is always a hit with kids, it’s creating a vision board. I’ve used vision boards as a way to create focus for kids around different topics such as goal setting or determining an intention for the next season. In a previous post, I talked about the…
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