What would make this New Year’s different than last year for your children?
If you wish to help your children fill their new year with more happiness and excitement, show them how to fill out a New Year’s Resolutions chart.
How can a New Year’s Goal Planner help your kids?
Thinking about what they want to accomplish, what skills they want to improve, and writing down ideas can make a big difference as opposed to just jumping into a new year without any plans.
How can you help your children come up with their New Year’s resolutions?
1) Have a conversation with your children about their strengths and weaknesses.
Depending on their interests, they might want to work on gaining new skills they lack, or enhancing their current strengths to a higher level.
What about the bad habits that they want to get rid of, or new sports or instruments they wish to try?
They might want to spend less time in front of a screen, or more time working on art projects or learning new languages.
2) Encourage them to set short-term and long-term goals
Accomplishing a short-term goal can boost your child’s confidence, which works as fuel to work on their long-term goals. Help them choose goals that are achievable with some effort, but remember that they should be meaningful goals to your child.
3) Find a spot to display the goal chart so your child and family can see it often
Out of sight, out of mind is a reality.
If your child doesn’t get enough chance to think about their resolutions, the goals they have set will lose meaning and they will have little hope of accomplishing them.
Display their goal planner somewhere visible that they have to pass every day. That will keep them thinking about it, and the whole family can discuss their progress each day over dinner.
