Youth Development: 5 Tips for Youth Development
Are you concerned about youth development? Then you are not alone.
Nowadays many of us find ourselves worrying and wondering about what can be done to help empower our youth and to encourage the positive development of their life skills and abilities.
Outlined below you'll find our top 5 tips that encourage and promote healthy youth development.
1) Get Connected and Stay Connected: Get in touch with your kids.
As busy as our schedules seem to be in today's fast paced society, take the time to find out what type of things interest your kids and show some interest in them yourself.
Try the latest and greatest video game, as daunting as it may be, or find another common interest, maybe take a family road trip, anything, but spend some quality time building a bond with your kids.
Then continue to do it on a regular basis, this way you will always have time for each other, which opens doors for communication, which is key for a healthy and trusting relationship.
2) Get Involved: Whether it be that you start volunteering as a coach in your child's favorite sport, or attend every drama play of theirs, show that you care and that you're proud of them and what they're doing.
Maybe find a place to do some volunteer work together, or find a hobby to learn together, or find a type of lessons to enroll in together, maybe join kick boxing or art classes, but find a way to benefit not only their physical well being but mental well being as well.
Try to get them active in the community by becoming active in it yourself.
This way, they feel protected and safe by knowing that they're not alone, while also developing important social skills and building upon the trust in their relationship with you.
3) The Family that Eats Together, Stays Together: Research shows that the majority of families that actually sit down and eat dinner together are less likely to make poor behavioral decisions in the future.
This also helps to create a closeness with everyone and allows time to talk about the events of that day and find out what's going on in each others lives.
It also ensures that your children are eating properly at least a meal a day and promotes their physical well being as well as mental.
4) Allow for Opportunities: Opportunities and experiences are a huge part of our youths development process.
On occasion it may allow for them to make incorrect choices, but remember this is not a failure or a mistake if something is learned by it.
Opportunities also allow for so much more; knowledge to be gained and confidence to be earned.
They may overcome obstacles they never thought they could.
They will learn to make new friends, build upon existing friendships, learn to work together as part of a team, have conquers and defeats, which in all, makes for a well rounded and competent individual.
5) Spiritual Freedom: As much as we want out children to be healthy physically and mentally, we tend to forget in today's society about the balance of spiritual health as well.
It is every bit as important to be in touch with your spiritual side as well as your intellectual, emotional and physical.
All these factors contribute to the development of our nations youth.
So keep in mind, whether your beliefs or another, to make your kids aware and to allow your children to adopt, embellish and choose a spiritual belief that is right for them.
This too, places the youth into a supportive and interactive society within the community.
The progress of our youths development, factors into many variables.
One must find a healthy balance among family, community, and fellow peers.
They must find themselves in a nurturing and supportive group which promotes positive outcomes.
Although we cannot control all these factors, we can do our best to contribute into each of them actively, in which we will ensure and promote the healthy development of our youth and their generation.
Nowadays many of us find ourselves worrying and wondering about what can be done to help empower our youth and to encourage the positive development of their life skills and abilities.
Outlined below you'll find our top 5 tips that encourage and promote healthy youth development.
1) Get Connected and Stay Connected: Get in touch with your kids.
As busy as our schedules seem to be in today's fast paced society, take the time to find out what type of things interest your kids and show some interest in them yourself.
Try the latest and greatest video game, as daunting as it may be, or find another common interest, maybe take a family road trip, anything, but spend some quality time building a bond with your kids.
Then continue to do it on a regular basis, this way you will always have time for each other, which opens doors for communication, which is key for a healthy and trusting relationship.
2) Get Involved: Whether it be that you start volunteering as a coach in your child's favorite sport, or attend every drama play of theirs, show that you care and that you're proud of them and what they're doing.
Maybe find a place to do some volunteer work together, or find a hobby to learn together, or find a type of lessons to enroll in together, maybe join kick boxing or art classes, but find a way to benefit not only their physical well being but mental well being as well.
Try to get them active in the community by becoming active in it yourself.
This way, they feel protected and safe by knowing that they're not alone, while also developing important social skills and building upon the trust in their relationship with you.
3) The Family that Eats Together, Stays Together: Research shows that the majority of families that actually sit down and eat dinner together are less likely to make poor behavioral decisions in the future.
This also helps to create a closeness with everyone and allows time to talk about the events of that day and find out what's going on in each others lives.
It also ensures that your children are eating properly at least a meal a day and promotes their physical well being as well as mental.
4) Allow for Opportunities: Opportunities and experiences are a huge part of our youths development process.
On occasion it may allow for them to make incorrect choices, but remember this is not a failure or a mistake if something is learned by it.
Opportunities also allow for so much more; knowledge to be gained and confidence to be earned.
They may overcome obstacles they never thought they could.
They will learn to make new friends, build upon existing friendships, learn to work together as part of a team, have conquers and defeats, which in all, makes for a well rounded and competent individual.
5) Spiritual Freedom: As much as we want out children to be healthy physically and mentally, we tend to forget in today's society about the balance of spiritual health as well.
It is every bit as important to be in touch with your spiritual side as well as your intellectual, emotional and physical.
All these factors contribute to the development of our nations youth.
So keep in mind, whether your beliefs or another, to make your kids aware and to allow your children to adopt, embellish and choose a spiritual belief that is right for them.
This too, places the youth into a supportive and interactive society within the community.
The progress of our youths development, factors into many variables.
One must find a healthy balance among family, community, and fellow peers.
They must find themselves in a nurturing and supportive group which promotes positive outcomes.
Although we cannot control all these factors, we can do our best to contribute into each of them actively, in which we will ensure and promote the healthy development of our youth and their generation.
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