Every parent wants to raise children that go on to be happy and successful. As a parent, there is a lot you can teach your child that will help them to thrive throughout their life. The habits and characteristics for success are most easily learned in childhood.
Once poor beliefs and habits are established, they’re tough to extinguish. For example, anyone that’s tried to lose weight knows how tough it can be to just change your eating habits.
Consider the things that have helped you to be successful. Not only can you learn from those situations yourself, but you can also use those stories to your children’s benefit! Also, think about the things that have prevented you from being more successful.
Learning from your past successes and mistakes is invaluable. The lessons you learned through your experience in life can be taught to your children. There will always be struggles and challenges that our children will face in their life. However, by teaching them these 7 tips and sharing your experience with them we can reduce their time struggling through their trials and errors. We can help them maintain their confidence by knowing that they are not alone and everyone goes through those challenges. By sharing our experiences we can literally cut their learning curve in half with our experiences as we mentor and guide them on their own journey.
Use these 7 strategies to help your children learn how to succeed:
- Teach your child to be a finisher. Many adults would be much more successful if they could just finish what they start. Too many people put in a lot of time and effort, only to quit before the job is complete or the goal is attained. This is nothing more than a bad habit.
- Encourage your child to finish out the baseball season, even if he wants to quit.Chores and homework are other good opportunities to learn how to finish a task.
- Teach your child to do what needs to be done and to do it in a timely manner. This is the opposite of procrastination. This means studying for a test plenty of time before the test is given. It mean doing homework before playing video games.
- Ask your child what they need to do and then make them do it. In time, the grumbling will lessen.
- Teach your child to be okay with failure. Most children are overly sensitive about being judged by their peers. Children are often afraid to try anything unless they feel certain they’ll experience success. Teach your child that failure is okay and natural.
- Reward your child for effort, especially when trying something new.
- Keep your child physically active. Active children sleep better, are healthier, and even do better at math. Successful people are more likely to be healthy and physically active. Tell your child to turn off the TV and go outside to play.
- Love your child. A loved child is a braver child. Children that are confident that their parents love them are more likely to take risks. We could all use more confidence! Ensure that your child is 100% confident of your love for them.
- Teach your child to persevere. This might be the greatest characteristic you can instill in your child. We all know someone that is marginally intelligent, skilled, and talented, yet always seems to succeed. Those that persevere are successful far more often than not when the smoke clears.
- Set a good example. This last tip is critical. Your child is always watching you for clues of what to believe and how to act. You can’t act one way and expect your child to act another, regardless of your words. Show your child how to be successful by being successful yourself. Exhibit the traits listed above.
Teach your children the important lessons they won’t learn in school. Success is little more than a consistently followed by a set of behaviors and attitudes that are effective in our society.
Avoid forcing your child to figure out for themselves how to succeed in the world. Share your wisdom with them, and ensure they know how much you love them. Do your best to be a good example of how a successful person faces the challenges and the world today.
About the Author: John Geyston, is a family man and a father of 3 children Jett, Jayden and Jianna. John has owned his academy and been serving the Springfield area for over 40 years teaching focus, life skills and empowering lives of kids in his martial arts and leadership program and recently has expanded his academies to Tampa Florida. www.tampamartialarts.com
