{"id":1759,"date":"2023-08-28T10:00:37","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T10:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/?p=1759"},"modified":"2023-08-28T13:40:24","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T13:40:24","slug":"back-to-school-back-to-goal-planning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/2023\/08\/28\/back-to-school-back-to-goal-planning\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to School, Back to Goal Planning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As back-to-school approaches use the time to sit down and discuss personal goals within the family unit. Everyone in the family can participate and with 2-5 individual goals set for the coming school year, the family may find time for extra, shared activities.<\/p>\n<p>Keep it simple, but meaning-filled:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dad might plan to cook dinner at least twice a month, spend 30 minutes a day with kids (reading or playing outside), or some other family goal.<\/li>\n<li>Mom might take time to play games with the kids after homework each night, plan a surprise dinner for celebrating monthly family accomplishments, or attend a during-the-day school function.<\/li>\n<li>Kids might promise to do their best in school, read for 20 minutes every day, do chores without being asked, etc.<\/li>\n<li>Grand parents might participate by attending daytime school functions while parents are at work and unable to attend. (Remember to take pictures!)<\/li>\n<li>For babies, the family might plan time to play together to encourage the baby&#8217;s physical skill or social\/emotional development.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Does it sound like shared family time? I hope so. Times with the entire family goes a long way to develop well-rounded individuals of all ages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As back-to-school approaches use the time to sit down and discuss personal goals within the family unit. Everyone in the family can participate and with 2-5 individual goals set for the coming school year, the family may find time for extra, shared activities. Keep it simple, but meaning-filled: Dad might plan to cook dinner at\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/2023\/08\/28\/back-to-school-back-to-goal-planning\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,32,281,24,320,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-general-thoughts","category-independent-skills","category-ideas-websites","category-planning-for-next-year","category-support-for-families"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1759"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2209,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759\/revisions\/2209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}