Today's Tip for Families

01-29-2022

Help Your Student Aim High in School

Aiming high helps students do better in school, say researchers.

According to one study, students with higher expectations for themselves earned B's and above. Students with lower expectations averaged C's. And fewer of those students graduated.

Students with high expectations were also healthier. They coped better. They had more athletic achievements.

To encourage high personal expectations:

• Help your teen envision the future. Ask, "What do you see yourself doing when you grow up?" "What brings you happiness?"
• Help your teen set short term goals and plan ways to achieve them.
• Help your student strengthen special talents—singing, debating, athletics, science.
• Avoid stepping on your teen's dreams. Focus on what your student can do, not on what can't happen.
• Expose your teen to successful people—in the community and through biographies.
• Discuss successful people. What attitudes, qualities and skills made them successful?
• Foster a "can do" attitude. Stress that success depends more on effort than on ability or intelligence. Hard work and persistence do pay off!
• Turn setbacks into learning experiences. Ask, "What can you do differently in order to succeed next time?"

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