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What parent doesn’t want their children to be conscientious creators of their own lives-to achieve desired goals?Ĭhildren learn to use and apply knowledge as they gain skills in planning, organizing, decision-making, and problem-solving. Research shows that our ability to be resourceful individuals determines and shapes our futures. How do children learn resourcefulness? Why is it important to lifelong success? How do parents help children achieve goals AND teach resourcefulness at the same time? Why Resourcefulness Is Vital to A Child’s Success

I often cringe at how often we helped our daughter in this way and how she might approach goal achievement differently today had we been more intentional about developing her resourcefulness. When parents do most of the planning, organizing, problem-solving, and work for children, we rob them of the opportunity to become resourceful themselves. We can’t be our children’s sole resource. Whether the goal is to build a chariot, create the best science project, write a good term paper, or generate a creative assignment of any kind, kids want to achieve goals, and parents want to help. Our family’s story, and many more like it, occur every day in the lives of our children, from elementary through high school. The truth? Sarah’s team won because of her father’s talent and resourcefulness, not because she and her teammates learned important processes like planning, designing, experimenting, and problem-solving. Our daughter’s team won the race, and we were all excited. At least 20 homemade chariots lined the school playing field as students dressed in Roman togas took their places and proud parents cheered from the sidelines. Sarah had an advantage over her classmates-her father was an architect with great design ideas. So, we came together as a family to build the best chariot possible. Like most parents, we wanted to help our daughter in her quest to succeed. It was a fun school project, and one that had the potential to help Sarah learn resourcefulness-the ability to find and use available resources to achieve goals. Sarah’s goal was to build the best chariot so she and her team could win the competition. When our daughter Sarah was in 7 th grade, her Latin Class held student chariot races-reenacting a sport that began in ancient Greece.