4 Part Framework to Developing The Success Life Skill

Can you find the mistake?

You are so excited.  You finally visit this HUGE museum.  It's several floors and each is olympic-sized.  The museum covers thousands of years of history.  You are overwhelmed with seeing beautiful paintings, artifacts, manuscripts, jewels, and ancient money.  Wow.  You and your best buddy and walk thru the whole museum.  It takes hours and your head is spinning with all you saw.  (you wish you'd worn more comfortable shoes). 

Two weeks later, you ask yourself . . . . "what did I see there?"  [cue the cricket sounds]. 

Note:  the answer to "can I find the mistake"  is found in the podcast.  

What went wrong?  

We could ask the very same question of our teens.  They work so hard and do their best to absorb all that comes at them daily.  Tests, grades, ACT-SAT, and more.  It's overwhelming.

They learn math, science, history, and english.  All of those topics are wonderful and needed, of course.  But it's overwhelming.

But what about HUGE topics needed for "real life"?  

Just to name a few:  networking, negotiations, smart spending, debt/credit, insurance, how to "be the author of their own life", and of course what long-term success really takes.

Bigger hint:  It's the lessons they teach themselves during and AFTER formal education that they will remember . . . for a lifetime.  

How Can You Teach This Concept to Your Teen?

It's not as hard to get this concept over to your teen as you think.  Your biggest move is to get lessons OUTSIDE of the classroom - that they set up and learn for themselves.  That's what this podcast is designed for - to help you start this very thing.  

• This podcast gives you a roadmap to isolate and target "success" in the real world however you as a parent/family define it.   
• What strategies can you use to help?  Learn the 4-step plan.  

Need an overview of this podcast?

• [2:24] The two foundational requirements needed
• [3:03] How to get your child to chalk up an educational experience to "lesson learned"
• [4:17] Avoid the museum mistake discussed at the top of this blog
• [4:20] The 4-point framework to understanding that success more than books and grades
• [5:47] What the 4-steps will help your child gain
• [6:29] A 4-step illustration
• [9:02] The Parent Action Step

Click Here to Listen.

I hope that this strategy can help you get your child excited about life beyond the classroom by learning to reach up and out.  Those are the lessons they will remember.  They helped create and execute them.  It's a plan they can use for a lifetime.  

As always . . . 

You CAN Have Success in the Middle of it ALL !

Pam/The JellyGeneration Team

Show Links:

• Finally, Get Your Child's "Bragging Documentation" organized!  (Free checklist and training video)
• Self-Confidence - 5 Steps to New Opportunities
• Photo Credit:  by Anna Shvets from Pexels

About JellyGeneration

Pam Hardison, MBA, BBA in Finance and Business Education, has created and co-owned a national mail order catalog which at one point was the 21st fastest growing customer base in the nation.  As a mom of two college-post college daughters, considers it a privilege and to meet other students and parents along the same road.   After teaching high school and college students for years, her commitment to helping them with topics most schools can't cover is the light that drives her.  

Holly Powers, Attorney-At-Law (Jameson & Powers, P.C.) has been actively practicing law since 1985 and is a shareholder with the law firm of Jameson & Powers, P.C.  The firm specializes in transactional law, health care law, and general business law.  Holly has taught students precepts concerning the legal world for over 10 years.  With 4 children, she understands what teens need to know and has a passion to help others faced with teens and aging parents.