"I want to be a doctor."........"I love teaching"..........."I am born to fly over the sky"........................
Ask a child, who is before or in early teenage, about his/her goal, you can find differing answers from time to time. Their dreams in this age have been easily influenced by external factors like, time, place, family background, and friend circle. Because of multiple wishes, it will be hard for him/her to achieve anything.However, if children are encouraged to set their goals and dreams in proper way, their desires can be made specific and thus attainable.
Yes, children do not have sufficiently developed intelligences - and they can not take in mind every aspect in decision making. Therefore, they are so unstable in decision making that they can be easily shifted from one to another decision frequently.
However, early teenagers are DEVELOPING intelligences and decision making skills. And thus they can think of some apparent (if not all) aspects of the issue. On the other hand, the decision they make are products of their psychological and intellectual interest. They are combinations of their heart and mind. They are their inner wishes. But, they might not be goals. They can turn them into goals, if they find proper guidance from adults.
For goal setting of a child and a teenager, we need to identify his/her weaknesses or strength. The goal will be achievable only if it is backed up bye what you have and what can you do, not by what you don't have. One can be a good teacher in future, if s/he is quite societal, interactive and friendly in childhood. It will be joke for one who can't draw a picture of self to dream of being a painter!
If we want our little sisters' and brothers' dreams come true, it is our duty to help them recognize their weaknesses, and strengths.
I recognised my dream, it was to be a media personnel and I am doing my best to fulfill it. And I must say i recognised my brother's dream as well. He wanted to be a businessman so I asked him to leave Science and join Mamagement and he is going to do it.
ReplyDeleteDreams are means of keeping people hopeful and happy. Actually childhoold is the time to experiment ones interest that could turn into a passionate oppurtunity for future. Hence for an adult believing in that child is important because any individual should decide who he wants to be not what everyone expects him to be in order to be a happily successful person. Everyone must have a back up plan just in case though.
ReplyDeleteCheers!! to your thoughts!!