Further Resources

I have also found that it is important to ensure that you are as focused as you can be, given all your responsibilities as a parent, and time consuming tasks you have to get through. This is where the Success Strategies System comes in.

You can learn the tips and get the information yopu need, in small daily chunks, in as little as around five or six minutes daily.

I also highly recommend the Self Help Database, loaded with fantastic ebooks on a range of subjects for your improvement, development, and interest.

For personal development (always a plus with parenting), may I direct you here.

 

 

I am often telling people about the importance of goal setting.

 

It is a fundamental part of my relaxation, and positive page with audio, website, as well as a subject I regularly discuss on my Martin Cohn Personal Development Blog.

Hence, it is fitting, I should talk about it here, for kids as well.

 

I was fortunate to learn about the importance of positive mind development early on ( well, at least in those days, when I was 16 at school).  However, how about learning about it as a young child?

 

I could have achieved so much more, so much sooner.

 

I am not bitter at all, but want to encourage that our kids be taught goal setting from a young age. It is really so worth it.

 

The ability to set goals from a young age, will set a habit up for a lifetime, that will propell your kids further than many of their peers.

 

It has been found that the majority of the world’s most successful people, all have set and written goals.

 

It is like an action plan, and one I encourage whole heartedly.

 

I genuinely wish you all the best in teaching your kids goal setting, as it is a function of their future success.

 Goal Setting for Kids and Adults

 

I have been, and continue to be a believer, and active player in setting goals for myself, sometimes many for even a day, through to long range goals for several years ahead.

 

The idea here is to focus, and we can all be lead astray from time to time.

 

Having a list is critical.

 

Naturally, for Kids, however, you need to approach the situation from a different standpoint.

 

I don’t seriosuly expect a kid or young child to be writing to do liksts and goal sheets, per se, but they can certainly apply the concepts in their own, and fun way.

 

Again, this is imperative to succeed with goal setting.

 

As kids, in particlular, make it Fun.

 

This is what Goal setting for Kids is all about.

 

 

 

 

Kids, and Keeping their Rooms Tidy- A Technique to Use

When it comes to parenting toddlers, one common problem is that toddlers like to take their toys out, but they are not so keen on putting them away.

 

The reason is very natural.  Clean-up time is just not a whole lot of fun for anyone.  At least that’s the way your kids (and probably you) have been conditioned.

 

In my house we’ve changed this by anchoring a positive feeling to the whole cleanup process.  When I say “anchoring a positive feeling” I mean that we have established a ritual that is fun for the kids, so it makes them feel good.  Since the fun is connected to clean-up time it literally programs their brains to enjoy clean-up time.

 

What do we do?  We play a particular song and sing along while we put away the toys.  The song is “Dreamer” by Supertramp.  It’s a fun song and we’ve come up with our spoof version of it at home.  Basically we substitute the word “Clean-up”  instead of “Dreamer”. Really complicated (not!)

 

“Clean-up …everybody clean-up… Put Your hands in the air oh oh …”

 

The kids probably think that these are the real lyrics.  We call it “The clean-up song” at home.  When my youngest daughter was just learning to speak she would shout out at the “oh oh” part because she could not sing the rest.  And she did it with such enthusiasm and excitement!

 

One day I’ll teach them the real lyrics so they don’t get made fun of when they are older.  It reminds me of this one “Saturday Night Live” skit where they talk about songs that are commonly sung with the wrong lyrics.  “Purple Haze” by Jimi Hendrix was on the list because some people sing “Excuse me while I kiss this guy” instead of “Excuse me while I kiss the sky”.  What a laugh!

 

Anyway back to the point of all this:  My kids enjoy the clean-up process because we (parents) are actively involved and we’ve turned it into a fun activity with an attached feel-good song.  That’s why it works.  There are no fights.  I just put on the song and start singing.  You can do this with any activity and make it fun.

 

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Enjoy Your Children,

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