Goals for Children and Parents (2024)

FAQs

What are the parents' goals for the child? ›

Some common examples of parenting goals include promoting independence, encouraging academic success, fostering emotional well-being, and promoting positive behavior.

Parenting practices around the world share three major goals: ensuring children's health and safety, preparing children for life as productive adults, and transmitting cultural values. A high-quality parent-child relationship is critical for healthy development.

Family Goals

To provide financial resources to achieve each member's personal goals. To maintain good health for all family members. To maintain a home of which you are all proud. To have a son or daughter join the family business.

What is positive parenting and why is it powerful? Positive parenting is about showing children love, warmth and kindness. It's about guiding children to act the way you want by encouraging and teaching them. It's about helping children thrive by sending the powerful message: You are loved, you are good, you matter.

The primary purpose of parenting is to raise fully functional adults who can take care of themselves and make a positive contribution to society.

Examples of short-term goals for children: Complete my homework everyday after school this term. Attend maths or English tutoring sessions. Practice maths questions for half an hour each day.

How do you write a goal for a child? ›

The goal of parent and family engagement is to build strong and effective partnerships with families that can help children and families thrive. These partnerships are grounded in positive, ongoing, and goal-oriented relationships with families.

Goal statements provide parents and caregivers with direction and purpose, and orient a family toward solutions that are simple, measurable, achievable, realistic, and time bound (short-term and long-term).