Helping Your Teen Live by Choice vs. Live by Chance - Neuro Tip (At Home)
Dec 27, 2024In parkour we teach kids to move by choice versus move by chance. This is a practice way for them to develop brain pathways that transfer into living by choice versus living by chance. With older children we can dive in deeper to helping them choose to live by choice instead of default to living by chance.
Ways to help your teen shift to living by choice vs. living by chance:
- Talk about the difference
- Model living by choice
- Process events and identify if that was a result of living by choice or chance (in their own life and using others as an example *note: the goal here is teaching, not judging others - make sure the tone does not shift into judging others as that will create other negative brain pathways)
- Draw attention to where you see them living by choice
- Ignore places you see them living by chance UNLESS it is pertinent to bring it up OR if it is the one area you want to specifically work on helping them create change in. If it is the latter do so with curiosity and questions, not with an "I have the answers, let me fix you" approach.
Neuro Coaching has been a powerful tool in my own life to help me shift from living by chance to living by choice in areas I didn't even realize I was living by chance.
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