Strategies

Description

Benefits

Strengthen communication line with the child

Parents should initiate communication line with the children in all forms like dialogue, chat, telephone calls, text messages, and the like.

: Strengthens family relationship

: Discovers and explores child’s

needs, wants, interests, concerns, plans, and dreams

Set goals

Parents should set long-term goals as the ultimate target and set short-term objectives toward the attainment of the long-term target. The target should be specific, measurable, attainable, and time-bounded

: Specific target leads to a strong sense of focus and guides every member of the family’s specific direction

: Serves as a vision for the day-to-day life journey

Set a family road map

Parents should design a family road map and identify targets, possible challenges and factors that can contribute in the journey for realizing the long-term target

: Serves as the blueprint of possibilities and calculated risks

: Serves as a step-by-step guide of the journey

: Serves as a guide to monitor and measure progress, particularly on specific targets

Identify a successful individual or family as a model for success

Parents should identify particular successful individuals and families as living testimony of success. This serves as empirical evidence of successful stories

: Serves as a model, inspiration, and living testimony of success.

: Success stories can increase the level of motivation and drive

Establish Community-based Peer Group

Parents should initiate a peer group within the community that will serve as a support system and an avenue to share the ups and downs such as challenges and strategies in coping with difficulties related to family concerns and aspirations

: Opportunity to identify and develop different coping skills.

: Can also enhance the feeling of hope, self-worth, and confidence

: Opens an avenue to release stress and emotional baggage

Promotion of optimistic thinking

Parents should develop the mindset of being positive thinkers, people with a high level of sense of hope, and address concerns, not in the perspective of problems and difficulties but as part of the challenges of being parents

: Can increase a sense of hope

: Can contribute to the state of being relaxed and comfortable.

: Can also reduce stress, and improve health conditions and well-being.

: Can lead to a high level of involvement in physical activities particularly work-related undertakings