From birth on, we struggle to achieve, maintain, and protect our independence. As parents, we are often in a quandary about how to effectively support and encourage our children’s growing independence.
All children need choices and responsibility at age-appropriate levels to help develop independence. Through experience and practice, children gain confidence to try new tasks and build self-esteem. Toddlers are ready to make simple choices such as selecting what clothing item to wear or what breakfast food to eat. Let them try (and fail) at new tasks. Increase the level of responsibility and choices as the child matures. School-age children can pack their own lunch, put up their clothing, help with assigned chores, and select an activity for family night. Responsibilities for “tweens” may include learning to use an alarm clock, independently completing homework, using a planner to track homework and extracurricular events, and keeping their room organized. Teens are ready for responsibilities that will help them transition to living on their own (dorm life) such as doing laundry, helping with family meal preparation, running errands, and maintaining a part-time job.
Fostering independence now will help your child transition to adulthood with confidence and success!
Living Well By Design Has Partnered with Tutor Doctor St. Louis to Provide Support for Parents
Living Well By Design:
Are you designing your life or allowing others to do it for you? Sara Hoffstot and Suzanne Rodgers can help you design your life in the way that you’ve always envisioned it to be! Living Well By Design is committed to finding their clientele the dash of life that they are looking for. Sara and Suzanne are transforming lives by allowing their clientele to design their own way of life in a way that will bring them peace, happiness, and success. Incorporating the seven areas of well-being: physical, emotional, social, intellectual, environmental, occupational, and spiritual into our counseling sessions and couture presentations ensures their clientele and audience members will have the perfect accessories to begin designing their ideal life. Living Well By Design is accomplished by giving their clientele choices that will assure their plan of action will become a reality through: custom counseling (individual, couples, family), luxury counseling (webcam, phone, professional consultations), and refinement counseling (presentations, seminars, groups.)
Chat with the Counselors:
Living Well By Design has teamed up with their Community Partners in Missouri and Illinois to support people and offer complimentary chats in person and articles submission to various newsletter and/or newspapers. This is your opportunity to use Chat with the Counselors as an accessory in designing your life the way it was meant to be. Living Well By Design has teamed up with their Community Partner, Tutor Doctor, to support people who may have questions about counseling or would like to refine, polish, and educate themselves and others. The topics that will be written will come from their Couture Collection of Presentations that focuses on the seven areas of well-being: physical, emotional, social, intellectual, environmental, occupational, and spiritual. Sara & Suzanne are very passionate about getting the word out about the seven areas of well being and the concept of being in control of your own life. Living Well By Design hopes that you join them here monthly to read about different ways to design with your life in mind.
