Whether you and your children are learning from home this year or in the classroom with some restrictions, my colleagues and I would like to take a moment to inspire you to consider that it means to DREAM BIG.
Supporting your child’s dreams is equally important as having your own dreams for them. Do any of your children have special talents? Encourage your child’s strengths in the positive and encourage what type of current future education goals might be suitable. If they are good at arguing, suggest they might learn about legal contracts. Or if they are good at accounting, suggest they might learn about finance and business. Equally, your family rock star may benefit from learning to read notes.
The research has shown that when parents themselves DREAM BIG for their children, children will respond and strive to achieve their goals thereby increasing their academic performance.
Here are some tips that will inspire learning and help your children to DREAM BIG:
Helping Your Child Dream Will Broaden Future Horizons!
Engage with your children, even if you do not know the full details of their educational curriculum.
Have ongoing conversations with your children about their feelings and experiences about what they are learning.
Inspire exciting ideas in your children about what they can do with new knowledge in the future.
Ask your children to dream about what they would like to do in the future, both this school season and beyond.
Help your children to be creative with family games of cards, solving puzzles, or creating art.
Encourage math and financial literacy, by helping children to be involved with shopping decisions and budgeting with an allowance.
Open a Registered Education Savings Account (RESP) for your child/children, and talk to them about the possibilities of what this can be used for.
Support the idea of life-long learning. Learning is everywhere. And it is fun.
Encourage varied activities, especially while confined at home, are helpful to reduce stress and promote learning.
Talk about different kinds of ideas, different cultures, and different types of places.
Reinforce positive ideas for the future.
Inspire with happiness, thoughtfulness, and possibilities.
Parents: Help Your Children Dream Big!
Together parents can help their children DREAM BIG and in turn school communities will be inspired. Dreaming big is contagious and other children may dream big too!
Financial Planning includes the identification of dreams and goals and includes effective planning that will help make your children’s dreams and possibilities into future realities.
If you wish to contact me, I am very interested to learn what ideas you have that will help your children DREAM BIG in Terwillegar.
My associates and I wish for you and your children a prosperous and happy school season!
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Joanne David BA CFP FCSI is an independent Financial Planner operating in the Terwillegar-Riverbend area of Edmonton. I am always interested to hear from my community. Phone: 780.718.7117 Web: www.JoanneDavid.com/contact
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