Understanding Your Kids

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Teens and Tweens

Motivating Your Kids

By Charis Patrick

            We are always worried sick about our children’s future.  We are always thinking of ways to motivate them.  Sometimes, the situation gets worse.  As parents, we are interested in our children’s life because it’s all about their future.

            The truth is, most teens and tweens are motivated, but not by what we think should motivate them.  We need to make them buy into the value of doing well.  Remember, our children’s lack of motivations is not our fault.  Sometimes it’s because we are too close/near that we can’t see them as separate from us.  Stand back and start seeing our children as his/her own person.  It will help them to understand themselves well.

            As parents, the goal is to influence our children to do something that he doesn’t want to do.  Get to know them well enough to figure out their own desires.  Stay out of their way enough so they can figure who they are, what they think and where their own interests lie.