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 |