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Teachers, professors, and employers are telling us today's students are not prepared for their next challenges.
A recent study from Intelligent .com (12/23) revealed eye opening reasons why parents must start now developing better skills in preparing their children for adulthood. Can you imagine 1 in 5 college graduates bring a parent on their job interview? Can you imagine, out of 800 U.S. Mangers, 58% reported that college graduates are unprepared for the workforce? How about nearly HALF of the employers have had to fire a recent college gradate. 53% of employers report that recent college graduates struggle to make eye contact during interviews.
The following comes from “How To Raise an Adult”, written by Julie Lythcott-Haimes. Julie served as dean of freshman and undergraduate advising at Stanford University. She holds a BA from Stanford University, a JD from Harvard Law School, and an MFA in writing from California College of the Arts.
Phil Gardner, who for 28 years directed the Collegiate Employment Research Institute at Michigan State University claims he has seen a great deal of change when it comes to patterns, and trends in the hiring of college graduates. According to Phil, “What is pervasive now is that parents are making decisions about what academic majors to pursue. If parents are choosing the major, if the student is not enthused about their major, it sets the kid up very poorly to transition out of college. When seeking a job all they can basically say to a prospective employer is, ‘mom and dad wanted me to do this’. These kids are unhappy. And it is beginning to show.”
She further writes “we speak of dreams as boundless, limitless realms. But in reality often we create parameters, conditions, and limits within which our kids are permitted to dream - with a check listed childhood as the path to achievement.”
“There's nothing inherently wrong with a checklist of things to be accomplished in order to set ourselves up well for the next thing in life; to be successful we have to set goals and work hard to reach them.” “But if we've taught our kids that there is one predetermined checklist for their lives, we may be constructing a path that is more about us than them. And the path that isn't about them may be a path to nowhere.
Starting with employers and working our way backwards to the student, we can connect the dots to parenting. Well-intended parents may very well be setting their children up for difficulties as an adult. It is with this in mind that Parenting For Adulthood was born.
What to Expect:
The biggest takeaway will be understanding how little minds soak up information that leads to their personality traits and behaviors, as an adult. The subconscious absorbs everything it sees and hears. Understanding this simple, yet important, knowledge will have a huge impact on your child/children.
You will learn the steps to raising children who can learn from failure, challenges, disappointments, homework assignments, EARN what they get vs. giving it to them, struggle and succeed on their own, and be self-sufficient when meeting the stresses of high school, college, trade school, and the eventual workforce.
You will learn "12 Huge Mistakes Parents Can Avoid."
You will learn how to communicate with your spouse in a positive and meaningful way that you child/children will see and use later in life. This will open the pathway for parents to ask questions that open your children's replies to fruitful meaningful discussions. Eliminating the dreaded "I don't know".
You will learn how to determine when unintended stress is being placed on your child. Unintended Stress placed on children today comes from multiple sources. You'll learn how to recognize when unintended stress from teachers, coaches, and even you, the parent, is affecting your child.
While the course is designed for day school and elementary school ages, if you have children in middle school and high school, NO PROBLEM. The material provided is still useful.
