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4 Key Steps To Raising A Child With Vision

 

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Here are a few key steps that you can take to help your children envision their dreams and shape their future (you may want to give them a try as well):

Write daily affirmations
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I am special / I am smart / I am talented / I am cool / I am unstoppable

To quote author and motivational speaker Brian Tracy, “Your subconscious mind makes all your words and actions fit a pattern consistent with your self-concept and your innermost beliefs about yourself.”  Writing down a goal, a dream or an affirmation unlocks its power and intensifies your desire to achieve it.   Slowly it will start to seep into your subconscious and increase your belief in it.

When I realized that my daughter was starting to deal with body image issues, I had her start writing 4-5 affirmations a day.  They all had to start with the words “I am” followed by something positive about herself.  She has been writing them for about 2 years now and I have definitely noticed a difference in her self-confidence and self-esteem.

Create a vision board
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Every January, Journey and I spend some time discussing what areas of life she would like to focus on improving for the coming year.  This year she is focusing on 4 areas—health, family, educational and personal.  She writes down goals and action steps for each area. Next we pull out our art supplies and poster board and write them on the board.  Then we cut out inspirational words and pictures from old magazines and glue them onto the board.  We hang in her playroom so that she can look at it every day and review it periodically make sure she stays focused and on track.

Create a Dream Book
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If your child is too young to read and write, introduce the concept of goal-setting and visualization, by creating a Dream Book.  Journey’s Dream Book is a scrapbook filled with things she would like to do, places she would like to go and what she wants to be when she grows up.  I explained to her that the book was a place to keep all of her dreams and things she wanted.  And that if she believed and worked hard enough, she could have everything in it.  After receiving a few things she added to the book, she was sold!  Now whenever she wants something, the first thing she does is add it to the book or write it down.

(Related Post: Encouraging Kids To Dream)
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Journey in the 2013 Nordstrom Kids Fall Fashion Show

Provide real life examples

When the opportunity presents itself, use real world examples to reinforce the idea of manifesting thoughts and dreams into reality.  If Journey is feeling anxious or scared about a school performance or trying something for the first time, I remind her to imagine herself on the stage singing her heart out, strutting down the runway, or gliding around the ice rink like a pro.  I do it so often, she has started to interrupt me with, “I know mom, I know—if I can see it, I can be it, I can do it!”

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My name is Simone, and I'm addicted to sharing! On this blog, I share recipes, shopping tips, relationship and parenting advice, a joke, an opinion and just about everything in between. In between sharing, I run an integrated marketing agency where my love of details and straight lines are put to good use. But my most important job is being a wife and mother to a teenaged daughter who still seems to like me—for now anyway.

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  • dishofdailylife
    January 25, 2014

    This really is a wonderful concept! It all goes back to believing in oneself and the sooner we learn this, the stronger we become! I love that you are teaching your daughter this so young!

    Reply
    • Simone
      dishofdailylife
      January 25, 2014

      Thanks! We’ll really see how well it worked when he hits her teens. Those are the roughest years!

      Reply
  • Charlotte
    January 25, 2014

    First things first: You are a WONDERFUL momma. I absolutely love that you introduced this concept to your daughter at such a young age. You are instilling in her something that she will carry with her for the rest of her life–self confidence and a can-do attitude will take her far in life. You are teaching her that nothing is handed to her in life, but with hard work and determination, it can be hers.

    What a cool mom you are and a perfect example to your child. Stopping in from SITS today 🙂

    Reply
    • Simone
      Charlotte
      January 25, 2014

      Thank you so much for the compliment! I can’t help but wonder how different I might be if I had done some of this when I was her age.

      Reply
  • Charlotte
    January 25, 2014

    First things first: You are a WONDERFUL momma. I absolutely love that you introduced this concept to your daughter at such a young age. You are instilling in her something that she will carry with her for the rest of her life–self confidence and a can-do attitude will take her far in life. You are teaching her that nothing is handed to her in life, but with hard work and determination, it can be hers.

    What a cool mom you are and a perfect example to your child. Stopping in from SITS today 🙂

    Reply
  • Kimberly Amici
    January 26, 2014

    I love these ideas. I have thought about doing a vision board with my kids but haven’t gotten around to it. Motivated to do it now. I really like the idea of the daily affirmations. My husband and I read some each morning but this is a great habit for the kids as well.

    Reply
  • smileintothechaos
    January 27, 2014

    wonderful ideas! This concept needs to also apply more in schools. i think too much time is focused on the negative and not enough on the positive in the children. These ideas would be great to incorporate in the classroom as well. Great post=)

    Reply
  • William@TWG
    February 6, 2014

    More positivity in this post than in my whole childhood put together.

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    • Simone
      William@TWG
      February 8, 2014

      Wow! Thanks so much! Hopefully you will pass it along to your children:)

      Reply

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