Life has changed.
Society has changed! We wanted to
give our children a better life – and we did!
But unfortunately we may have made it too easy for them. Research and observations from college professors,
deans and statewide education officials tell us that an alarming number of
today’s students simply don’t have the self-management skills and habits needed
to succeed in college. One way to assess
this for your student is to ask yourself how well they really deal with
challenges and adversity.
Do they mope around or complain – “it was somebody
else’s fault” or do they get back up, re-commit and try, try again? And if you
don’t know – because you haven’t known or observed their reactions, you MIGHT be
overly protective. In other words, you may
have shielded them so well from adversity and defeat that they never learned
those highly valuable and important ‘failure’ lessons!
Another option: ask yourself whether you have seen
and see (now) daily examples of REAL planning, setting short-term goals,
working daily toward long-term goals – suffering defeats and getting back up
and in the game. And be careful to
discern whether s/he frequently uses that adult phrase “I’m gonna” but seldom DOES
what they said they would. And if you’d
like, contact us at Launch-Your-Life.com [or (518) 475-1538] for a free consultation and
assessment.
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