Stop, Start, Keep

01/09/23 • 18 min

Ep. 31
An easy and effective way for you to help your teen create practical strategies to achieve their goals this year.
Just ask these three simple questions to help them highlight good things they're already doing and identify potential improvements - all in a super-tangible way.
Extension task ;)
- Make sure they know 'WHY' for each answer, so they have logical reasoning and a clear link to the outcome they want.
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If It's Not Difficult, It's Not Doing Anything

Ep. 30
If your teen ever finds their study (especially exam revision or test prep) challenging,
the good news is, they're likely 'doing it right'.
As long as the challenge is coming from the content rather than any feelings of overwhelm or stress, that is.
Because I often see students busy 'studying',
but...
being 'busy' does not necessarily create progress.
Increasing the amount of activity, does not necessarily increase results.
For your teen to get most return on effort, they need to be doing things that will make the biggest difference.

This means doing
- the right type of activities
- at the right level of challenge.
Therefore, if it doesn't feel 'difficult' in some way,
then the truth is, it's probably not really doing much to advance them or their results.

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Ep. 32
Here are seven things I see a lot of struggling students doing, that are keeping them stressed, keeping them working longer and harder than is necessary and stopping them from achieving the results they’re truly capable of.
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Parents of Hardworking Teens - Stop, Start, Keep

Transcript

You’re listening to the Parents of Hardworking Teens Podcast, episode 31 - and we can’t start a brand new year without talking about goals, right? Now, in my experience most teenagers just groan at goal-setting. They’ve heard about setting SMART goals a hundred times and they likely do some sort of goal-setting exercise in their pastoral sessions, personal development or when they have speakers. So today, I’ll share with you an alternative, much more practical, tangible, quick and simp