“If you can find time for [other] activities, you can make time for your goals.”
Source: What Do You Really Want? How to Set a Goal and Go for It! A Guide for Teens
“When going for your goals, staying motivated, enthusiastic, and flexible are daily deeds of daring.”
Source: What Do You Really Want? How to Set a Goal and Go for It! A Guide for Teens
“Attitude plays a bigger role than you may imagine in determining your future success—bigger than talent, money, or popularity.”
Source: What Do You Really Want? How to Set a Goal and Go for It! A Guide for Teens
“The more often you visualize your success and the more details you envision, the more motivated you’ll feel.”
Source: What Do You Really Want? How to Set a Goal and Go for It! A Guide for Teens
“No matter how much (or how little) help someone provides, always say thanks. Thank yous are simple but important.”
Source: What Do You Really Want? How to Set a Goal and Go for It! A Guide for Teens
“If all else fails, try to get some sleep…whether you realize it or not, getting enough sleep can make it easier to solve problems, control your emotions, and cope with change.”
Source: What Do You Really Want? How to Set a Goal and Go for It! A Guide for Teens
“The gift of faith given to your children will last longer than any monetary gift.”
Source: Confessions of a Helicopter Mom
“When it comes to generating writing material, teenagers are gold. Their world is a narcissistic, anarchic, paranoid hell of anxieties and stresses about how they look; how popular they are or aren’t; and how fast or slowly, big or small their private parts are growing. As an observer, it’s fantastic. Hilarious, at times. Poignant and heartbreaking. It is all the stuff of great human drama because, before your eyes, you get to witness character transformation. Boy grows into man. Girl grows into woman. Writers strain to make this shit up.
But – and here’s the catch – we dare not discuss any of this if we want our kids to trust us or ever talk to us again. And that’s because, lifts and pocket money aside, teenagers crave privacy – the need for which hatches both swiftly and silently while we’re sorting out the laundry. It’s as if they suddenly wake up one day creeped out by the thought of all those years we wiped their butts and helped them put on their undies and they go into lock- down. They smoke us out, put up walls, close their doors, shut down their stories, and waft, earphoned, through our homes in a shroud of hormones and appetite. Their lives – in which, until recently, we participated with Too Much Information and gross oversharing – suddenly become ‘none of our business.”
“To teach our kids what they need to know online, we have to talk to them off line.”
Source: Kindness Wins
“Give me faith to step aside and let You work, especially in those times when I desire to influence, to persuade, to make my opinion known. Help me to be silent, trusting Your Holy Spirit to be at work in the hearts of those I love. Thank You for never giving up on prodigals, for loving them even more than we as mothers or fathers or brothers or sisters can love them.”
Source: Precious Lord, Take My Hand: Meditations for Caregivers