CHANGING OUR FUTURES

We all want our kids to be happy, healthy and successful in life. As parents, we take basic steps by sending them to a good school. Does getting good grades mean you would be successful in life? Can they earn money, fame, live a healthy lifestyle, have good friends? I don't know about you, however thinking about it, I usually just give up as there does not seems a "well defined" answer for it. So we just go with the normal flow of life and hope everything would be ok. As kids start growing and run into any issues, we start 'fixing' the issues – “one issue at a time” Maybe if that issue is resolved, we feel happy, however sometimes while 'fixing' that issues make us “lose focus” on the bigger picture of kids success. Some of the early key patterns are: 1. Defiant behavior - Kids saying no to whatever you say 2. Handle Dawdling - Does your child take 10 minutes to put on one sock in the morning? Is your kid s-l-o-w eater who takes a half-hour to eat a few bites of their dinner? 3. Sibling Rivalry and Fighting 4. Kids starting to Lying 5. Falling sick quite often, Not eating healthy 6. Showing disinterest in learning Soon the issues start mushrooming into bigger issues : 1. Confusion with studies - I can learn Computers. Maybe I can learn Bio-Tech. How about both? 2. Let's take a small job which pays bills. 3. Don't like my family. Don't want to talk to them 4. Not happy with life - Why I am living, What use of me going to job tomorrow? 5.Dating - Marriage - Divorce - Loneliness cycle Ego Issues 6. Drugs are cool things "Changing Our Futures" was launched in 2014 with the mission to give kids the 'values' which help them make "good choice" when they are confronted with real-life issues. Think about it, it's not as easy as it sounds - We all makes choices every minute - mostly our choices are in our self-interest at that moment. How do we make choices which take us in direction of getting being happy, healthy and successful