Teach Teens To Think Backward About Their Future

Help your teen think backward when it comes to their education. Teens can’t always see how the work they’re doing now will open doors in the future. But you can help them understand by having them set a goal twenty years into the future. Now work backwards to think through what they’ll need to do to get to that point. If they want to be a doctor, they’ll have to go to medical school. But to get into medical school, they’ll have to go to college. And to get into college, they’ll… well, you get it. Outline the path.

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