Working Caregiver- Grandparents
Spend more time with your grandchildren this year and help them achieve their goals.
Seniors Set Goals with Grandchildren
"People with goals succeed because they know where they are going. It's as simple as that."
- Earl Nightingale
Setting and achieving goals is a great way to bring positive motivation into your life and gives you something to really strive for. This year, why not take a more fun approach to your goals and include your grandchildren in the process? Setting goals with family and going through them together can increase the odds that you'll get through them. As a grandparent, you can help grandchildren set their goals and then work through them, using their progress as motivation for accomplishing your own. This can be a great way to spend time with your grandchildren, while also instilling good values and work ethic in your grandchild early on.
1. Ask them to come up with an area that they could improve in their lives - be gentle, but ask them how they think they could improve. Would they like to get better grades? Get along better with a sibling? Learn a new skill? Once an area has been settled on, help them make that goal specific.
2. Motivate with group efforts - write down your resolutions along with theirs, and track progress with charts. Get the whole family involved, and come together to talk about how you're doing with your resolutions
3. Use visual rewards for progress - when you check in with the progress of your grandchildren, reward them. Add stickers to a chart you've created, or give them pennies for their piggy bank for every step of the way
4. Keep the experience positive - motivate children by ensuring they always remain positive even if they have setbacks while trying to reach their goals
Via: eHow
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