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Covered in This Video:
- Three easy ways to promote confidence and optimism in your children
- Practicing positive thinking about the future using the “best possible future self” exercise
This Week’s Practice
Imagining your best possible future selves
Have each of your children articulate what their best possible future would look like in either one, five, OR ten years. How do they feel? Where do they live? What do they do? etc.
Join the Discussion
What do your children imagine for themselves?
Suggested Reading This Week
Raising Happiness, pp.78-82
Martin Seligman, The Optimistic Child
Weekly Thought
If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.”–Maya Angelou
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”–Oscar Wilde