New Years resolutions for kids can be fun, creative, educational, and improve personal growth. Start teaching goal setting and personal reflections using New Years resolutions. Here are a few ideas:

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If you are the type of mama who likes to sit down and plan the year ahead with your kids, these new years resolution ideas will help get their minds whirling.

New year’s resolutions can be fun, educational, helpful, and improve personal growth. Here are 5 categories of New Years resolutions to consider for your kids:

General New Years Resolutions

These general New Years resolutions are just that… general. They are probably already goals that your child already sets for themself.

So, take advantage of the new year tradition and re-visit some of these life goals.

• Keep room clean
• Try new foods
• Drink more water
• Keep good grades in school
• Get chores done on time
• Show more kindness- even when it’s hard
• Watch less tv/play less video games
• Put things away when done using them
• Memorize my address, phone number, and SSN
• Don’t tall back to parents
• Practice organization skills
• Read more

New Years Resolutions for Me!

As well as some general resolutions, personal resolutions are a great skill to teach. These are based on your child’s interests, passions, and unique life goals.

Some examples may be:

• Run for class president
• Complete a book series
• Memorize a set amount of bible scriptures
• Not to tease my little brother
• Find a community project and become involved
• Study a language, culture, or science field
• Write a book
• Learn to play an instrument
• Make it to a certain degree in karate
• or, whatever your child is specifically involved in

Fun with Friends

Setting some new year’s resolutions can be fun, especially when done with friends. Friends can help hold accountable and also make the experience memorable.

• Grow a garden together
• Read through a series of books together
• Learn to play/sing a song and perform it together
• Show kindness at school to classmates with less friends or ones that have been bullied
• Get involved in a community event or volunteer program
• Plan acts of kindness
• Resolve to share high and low moments with each other throughout the year
• Create a environmentally friendly campaign
• Become entrepreneurs

Teachable Moments

As moms, we’re always looking to find great teachable moments. Constructing new year’s resolutions can become a great one!

Here’s the truth:

Goal setting allows kids to explore interests, engage in self-reflection, become more self-aware, develop a sense of purpose, grow in identity, and increase confidence.

Consider these topics as you seek to positively influence your children:

• Health- Setting new year’s resolutions about health can become a great tool to teach about nutrition and self care. For a young child, this can be as simple as remembering to brush my teeth twice a day or eating colorful veggies. For an older child, it may be finding a sport or outside activity that they can participate 3-4 times a week.
• Self Awareness – You can teach journaling, hobbies that help with self-worth, and ways to spend quality alone time. These self-awareness habits can benefit any age children, and can become a powerful tool they use later in life.
• Discipline – Setting a new year’s resolution based on a certain discipline can be challenging and rewarding. Make sure he/she is fully on board with the goals you set, and challenge them to stick with it for a year. Examples of this may be learning a new language, keeping a completely tidy room, memorizing lengths of music or scriptures. You may be surprised what your child comes up with here!

New Years Resolutions for the Creative Child

New Years resolutions for the creative child can take a lot of planning on mom’s part. If you’re like me and have kids that love to paint, draw, build, and create… it’s a good idea to resolve to make it happen.

• Do something creative each day – Put on a play, color, sculpt, draw a comic, write a story, etc.
• Try new creative things – Plan some out of the norm crafts such as wreath making, knitting, photography, tie dye, etc.
• Designate an area of the house to creativity. Stock this area with plenty of easy to access art supplies.
• Create an in-home video of your child explaining or acting out this year’s resolutions. You can view it at the end of the year to review his/her accomplishments.
• Make a photo collage or poster board of all the resolutions your child has made. Allow them to use pictures and art supplies to piece together a masterwork of resolutions.
• Write a song about the new year and what resolutions you have chosen for the year. If you’re musical, put it to music and have your child perform it for the family.
• Involve your creative child in a dance, art, theatre, or music class this year. There’s no telling where this can take them!