Ways to Teach Your Child About Goal Setting

Life seems to advance at a quick pace these days. Before you know it, your child will be on his or her way out the door. In the meantime, teaching your child how to set and reach goals will be one of the most important things you teach him or her.

When should you begin teaching goal setting? I believe you should start as early as possible, and as with all things, start with the simple ideas first. And remember, the best teacher of all is your own modeling.

1) Goal Setting


Children (and all of us) learn from modeling. So, even when your child is a toddler, you can model your goal-setting process. "Mommy's goal is to get the laundry done today, would you like to help me fold the wash cloths? When we're done, what would you like to have for lunch?" These two simple sentences begin to teach your child that first of all, mommy has goals or things she wants to accomplish. Second of all, once those goals are accomplished, one can have a reward, such as good food to eat.

2) Saving Money


When your child begins to desire certain things such as a particular toy, you can begin to teach her about saving money. Learning to save for a house, a car, or a special vacation, years down the road, all begins with learning to save money in a piggy bank, or perhaps, in the child's very own bank account. Or, the child's money could just be saved in mom's account, with the child earning a small amount of interest and keeping track of it in his notebook.

Modeling how to save money is one of the most obvious ways to teach your child about goal setting. Say you want to buy a new computer, let your child know that you are saving each month until you have the money to purchase it.

Perhaps you could make a graph of how your savings are adding up, while at the same time your child makes a graph of something special they are saving for.

3) Learning Something New


Teaching how to save money is the most obvious of goal-setting ideas, but perhaps more importantly, teaching your child how to plan and execute a goal to learn about something (or learn how to do something the child wants to do), may be even more important. If your child for example shows an interest in drawing at an early age, providing her with some appropriate materials may move her interest along. She may set her own goal to learn how to draw animals, for example. Perhaps at some point she will save some of her own money for more and better drawing materials.

If you don't have a lot of extra cash (or even if you do) the library is a great resource for your child's budding interests. Having his or her own library card can give your child a greater sense of independence, and also knowledge of just how special books are. So, if you don't yet have a library card of your own, one of the best things you can do, in the way of teaching and modeling how to set goals, is to plan a special trip to the library, so you and your child can each get a library card.


As you think about modeling your own goal setting, it makes sense to start out with simple goals. If your interests are like mine, your goals may revolve around learning how to cook a certain type of food, (in my case Thai food). Perhaps like me, you want to learn to take better photographs or learn how to plant a better vegetable garden. Any time we work to attain a goal, it is a step by step process. We have a better chance of achieving our goals if we write them down. When we write our goals down, we are more likely to remember when we reach them, so we can celebrate.

The new young learner may have many burgeoning interests, and this is not the time to narrow his interests. Maybe the child will choose four or five or more books about things that interest her, and perhaps after reading a bit, a goal or two will be set to learn even more about a particularly interesting topic. Of course, if your child can't yet read, you will have the honor of reading his or her chosen books. Learning to read well, will hopefully be one of your child's most important goals.


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