1. Talk to your children about their goals and their plans to reach them.
2. Listen carefully to your child. What do they really want? What are they really trying to accomplish?
3. Help your child identify and explore their gifts, talents and abilities and match them with their goals.
4. Talk through scenarios as a family, “How will we respond if x happens?”
5. Teach your child to fail well. “Teaching children to fail well means transforming failure from an identity to a temporary action. Through the pain of failure, we can teach our child that failure does not define them. We can teach them that challenging situations are not a "test" of their intelligence or ability, and that failure is not permanent.”
Fostering Hope Among Families
Improving parents’ hope significantly improves the parent-child relationship quality (empathy, discipline, and child empowerment).
Parents with low hope will rarely produce children with high hope.
Parents with high hope will give their children the greatest chance of success in life.
Want to learn more about how to increase hope in your family? Here’s a great resource that includes Hope scales (mini questionnaires) for you, your children, and your family. You can determine your hope score, target areas that need attention, and then work to improve your hope:
Hope Rising: How the Science of HOPE Can Change Your Life (Paperback). Also available in Kindle, Audiobook, and CDs.
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