Young Women: Personal Progress Jumpstart

by Miriam Caldwell | More from this Blogger

18 Oct 2006 07:49 PM

With the rush of the school year, it may be easy to allow Personal Progress to be put on a backburner. It is important to encourage your daughter to be working on at least one experience throughout the year. Here are five simple suggestions to help motivate your daughter with her Personal Progress.

1) Take the time to review what your daughter is doing in school, and see if these experiences coincide with any goals or projects she may be working on. She may just need to complete a few extra steps to have these experiences passed off.

2) Encourage your daughter to set aside time each Sunday to work on her Personal Progress. This can be relatively easy to do, especially if you have a family letter writing or journal time each week. You can actually set this up, so if you have children in Primary, or a son in Young Men, that the whole family spends an hour setting and reviewing goals in their various programs.

3) Take your daughter out for some special time together. This can be for dessert at a local restaurant, or something more fun. Make sure that you spend some time just talking to her and encouraging her in her goals and dreams. This will help to motivate her, if she can feel how much you care about her.

4) Try to work some of the value experiences, and projects in with your family home evening lessons. This can be a lesson your daughter teaches, or you may just teach on a subject that needs to be covered. Try to make these experiences as positive as possible.

5) Do not pry too deeply into the experiences your daughter has she completes Personal Progress. Respect her privacy, and do not read the journal entries she makes in her Personal Progress book, unless she shares them with you. It is important to be willing to discuss the things she wants to, but not to be overbearing about completing Personal Progress.

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Miriam is a SAHM mom of three children. She has a daughter who is seven, and two sons, four and two. She loves being a parent and spending time with her children.

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