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A Guide to Setting Your Kids Up For Life

Modified on April 26, 2020 at 8:51 PM

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One of the most important actions you can take as a parent is ensuring that your children are set up for a successful life and a happy and healthy future. To ensure that they can achieve their dreams, here are the top steps that you should take to protect a strong family unit and lead your kids to a bright future as they get older.

Show Them Their Options 

All children and teens feel lost at some point in their lives, especially in reference to their future and career. To calm their fears about the future and ensure that they have a plan that can lead them to success, you should show them the options that are available to them. 

For instance, you should find out the Cornell University GPA requirements and those of the college of their choice, or show them alternative options to college. At CampusReel, they can point you towards the application requirements and detailed information on a variety of different educational institutions. This can allow your kids to work toward the grades that they need to meet success in their careers. 

Set Up a Trust for Them

One of the major barriers that can prevent your children from being successful is an inability to save for their big milestones, such as going to college or buying a house. Although you should encourage your children to save and work towards these aims, you can help kickstart their success at a young age by setting up a trust fund for them. This will allow you to contribute small amounts throughout their lives which they can then access when they want to make a big investment toward their future.

Lead Your Child to Faith

Every person must overcome challenges in their life, whether that be related to their career or their personal life. To ensure they are able to cope with these issues when they arrive, you should consider leading your child to your faith. Teach your child to pray to God, read the Holy Bible to them, and talk about your faith. Not only can this help them to cope when times are difficult, but faith can also teach your child important traits, such as forgiveness and charity.

A Guide to Setting Your Kids Up For Life

Encourage Beneficial Traits

There are certain teachings though that only you can give your child, and they can rely on these teachings throughout their lives. These include accepting failure and learning from their mistakes, understanding that they are not perfect and that things will go wrong, and learning to preserve when life gets difficult. 

Help Them to Find Their Passions

However, there is nothing more important than allowing your children to find their passions, as these can help to influence every aspect of their life, from their career to their hobbies, and allow them to become happy and well-rounded individuals with their own interests. You can help them find these passions by taking them to extra-curricular clubs and activities and providing them with the equipment and materials to try new activities, such as instruments and books. 

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on April 26, 2020 at 8:48 PM
Filed Under: Parenting
Tagged With: Catholic, faith, Family, family activities, Parenting, parenting advice, parenting tips

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Sarah-Jean Ballard is the Editor in Chief of The Fashionable Housewife blog and Founder of Fashionable Media. Married to a sexy Molecular Biologist, housewife, mom to 5, homeschooler, Certified Personal Nutritionist and entrepreneur who's mission is to help moms just like you look and feel GREAT! Other interests include dancing, yoga, positive intactivism, natural birth and breastfeeding support, babywearing, paleo & gluten-free cooking, and promoting an overall healthy lifestyle to all.

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