A Gift That Keeps On Giving
As I was leaving a large chain store today I happened to see a young man walk up to a lady as she unloaded her shopping cart into the trunk of her car. Inside her car was a young child, sound asleep.
This teenage fellow took her cart and returned it for her so that she would not have to leave the child to do so herself.
As I passed by him I immediately commended him for his kind actions and his response was that even though he regularly helps others few ever thank him.
One of the best ways to anchor quality thoughts and actions in young people and children is through praise. Your character is strengthened by taking the time to share a few simple words of thanks and encouragement that acknowledge their efforts.
Train yourself to take notice of the good deeds of others and let them know how much you appreciate the fact that they live with a degree of human excellence. It will go a long way toward making your day and theirs.
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10 Tips Regarding Teenagers
One of my close friends was discussing his teens and his inability to control their behavior recently. Here are some tips that I provided on living with teenagers.
Being a good parent sometimes means you must step back and let your teenagers make their own decisions. They are struggling for independence at this time and they must learn the life lessons, both good and bad that come from their decisions and the results of those decisions.
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Deciding What Type You Are
There comes a time when each teenager must make some choices on vocation and career. These should be made with your parents and possibly the guidance counselor at your school if possible. These are important moments that will define the quality of your future.
You will want to go down the path toward a vocational choice and career that allows you to use your natural talents and skills. This will help you live a much more productive and fulfilling life.
First take into account your personality. Are you internal and shy or outgoing and friendly? Do you work well with people or do you prefer to work with machinery and computers?
You might want to determine your personality type with a personality inventory such as the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator ( MBTI ) which is available online and can be completed in about thirty minutes or so. Your answers are evaluated and then an explanation of your personality type is sent to you. There are two forms:
- Personality Type is a basic version.
- Humanmetrics is the longer, more specific version.
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Networking Without Knowing
When teenagers reach an age where they start to socialize in public and where their personal interactions are becoming a focal priority and are beginning to demand a major portion of their time and attention they are networking without knowing.
Their immediate focus seems to always be on the topics of discussion at that moment, but the driving purpose for being together is in learning to develop complex social groups and honing personal interaction and communication skills.
The topics distract their awareness from what is actually occurring beneath the social structure of hello and goodbye.
Relationships don’t just happen for adults. You learn the expected and possible concepts and directions of close interaction with others through trial and error and the often unwise advice of those around you that you trust with that part of your personal feelings and thoughts.
For teenagers these are usually peers with a similar limited experience background and true comprehension. You may enter adulthood with an understanding of relationships and what they entail that is a mix of poorly reasoned teenage guesswork, personal trial and error and conjecture.
Parents should be responsible enough to pass their experience and knowledge to their children instead of letting their teenage kids self-develop in a random and often uninformed or misinformed manner.
Start your teen out right and give them every opportunity to unleash their maximum potential through well informed and emotionally balanced personality and thought patterns.
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Seven steps to true teen power
Stress is a natural part of life, but few times in life can be as stressful as the teen years when your body is changing and so many new things in life are happening.
There are some basic patterns that teens fall prey to during challenging times:
- Low self-esteem
- Fear, helplessness
- Confusion, indecision
- Random sense of direction
You don’t have to wait for all of those years of experience. Take control of yourself.
There are seven steps that you can take right now as a teen that will almost assure you a spot ahead of 99 percent of your peers. Your life and lifestyle will benefit and you’ll achieve more than you ever dreamed possible over many comfortable years.
- Be flexible in your thinking or problem solving and able to laugh at yourself.
- Know yourself well. Have a good sense of personal identity and self value.
- Be aware of your power to immediately initiate strong change in your life.
- Make firm decisions after consideration of what it can do to and for you.
- Create a sense of purpose and focus intently on what you want in life.
- Focus on a vision of young retirement, don’t willingly accept old age.
- Define your expectations to avoid being self-centered or unrealistic.
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