Coaching

What is child coaching?

Life coaching for children is empowering them through mindset development. They learn to use their power of mind and thoughts in creating happiness, confidence, and success in life to achieve their goals and dreams.

1. Coaching helps children develop resilience skills: how to bounce back and pick themselves up.

2. Coaching helps children develop self-esteem from the “inside out”: how to base the children's self-respect on who they are.

3. Coaching helps children learn to believe in themselves and build self-confidence: how to move through anxiety and fear, and go for their dreams with determination.

4. Coaching helps children develop their own “inner compass”: how to think for themselves and make good decisions, and be their own person.

5. Coaching helps children learn to live life with intention versus drifting through life without direction: with self-leadership skills, children develop an empowered way of thinking that will help them develop a vision for their lives.

From "Special Report: How "life coaching for kids is transforming the lives of children around the world - and how you can be a part of it,"Adventures in Wisdom Inc, Copyright @2015. Reprinted with permission.

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Why hire a coach for your child?

It does not imply that you are 'ineffective parents'. Some children just require extra support for certain developmental issues. Below are some common good reasons why children need a life coach:

child has low esteem – getting down on themselves, beating themselves up, or thinking that no one likes them

child is going through a big change, such as a move, a new school, or divorcing parents
child needs to be more successful in school or extra curricular activities

child struggles with confidence, shyness, or anxiety – shying away from new things or new experiences

child needs a jumpstart in developing self-leadership skills.

child is making poor choices with peers.

child constantly struggles at home around homework, chores, and other responsibilities.

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Life Coaching vs. Counseling

Life coaching and counselling may have similarities, but they are not the same thing.

Counseling is designed to help with more serious issues to lead a more normal, productive life . . . . or to get back on track (e.g. depression, OCDs, moving past negative/abuse, or going through personal crisis at home (such as an illness).

Life coaching is about helping people reach their fullest potential – helping them get from where they are . . . to where they want to be. For most people that means building confidence and self-esteem, reaching higher goals, creating more balance and happiness in their lives, and feeling more fulfilled in their lives. It’s about creating what they want in their lives.

FUNdamentals is about partnering with children in a thought-provoking and creative process to help them use their power of minds and thoughts in discovering happiness, confidence, and success in life.

Coaching Children vs. Coaching Adults

The brain development is the distinct difference between coaching children from adults.

Adults have much stronger critical thinking skills because the frontal lobes of their brains, where critical thinking occurs, are fully developed. These critical thinking skills enable them to make distinction and to draw conclusions more effectively. Adults also have greater life experience from which to draw upon. That is why life coaches for adults use questions as their main tool for engaging with their clients.

On the other hand, children’s frontal lobes are not fully developed nor are their critical reasoning skills. As a result, coaching children requires a stronger teaching component to help them learn these powerful mindset skills. With a coach’s guidance, children can easily apply the skills to their own lives. Children’s attentions span tends to be a lot shorter as well – which is why it is important to find fun and engaging ways to work with kids.

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