How to Teach Kids Success Principles

How to Teach Kids Success Principles

Exist, Enhance, or Expand

Before we can really begin to teach how to teach your children life success skills, we all need to be facing the same direction in our thought process on the subject.

Levels of skills

There are three primary definitions of success that people use. The first could fall in the category of Exist. Basic survival in the current society in which you live.

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In the USA, Exist would include running a dishwasher and washing machine. To Exist also includes doing grocery shopping within the budget you created for yourself, and then cooking that food. So on and so forth. In a small village in a third world country, Exist would constitute knowing how to hunt and gather food without being eaten by the local predators.

One step up from Exist would be the Enhance category.

Anything where you have extras inside of your personal lifestyle within your household. In the USA, an example could be: instead of public school for your kids you can afford to send them to private school. Instead of no car or one car, you have one for every driver in your family, plus a spare car for just in case. Instead of living paycheck to paycheck, you have a savings account that consistantly increases in size.

But to Expand

The third definition is the one we encourage everyone to use, including our children. We call it the Expand category. In this Expand category, a person’s success is not measured in the amounts obtained, or by just making it through day by day and not dying. To Expand, you have to focus on what you are contributing. And not just contributing in your own household, but to the world around you…

How well do you help people and how many people do you help? Are you Expanding outside the world of you and yours to the world of your neighbor, both near and far? Basically, what value are you giving to the world around you?

So now that we have established a definition of success to be what we are giving to the world around us, what type of skills and mindsets does one need in order to not get trapped in the other two definitions of success categories? And even more imortantly, how do you instill those skills and mindsets to the next generations, esspecially your own children. How do you teach your children life success skills?

In steps Victorious Kids

Now I don’t know how other people do it, but THIS is how we do it.

Have you ever wondered what even constitutes a Life Success skill?

With the world coming at you from every angle, telling you what’s good knowledge and what’s worthless knowledge, how do you sort through to find what’s real and what’s not?

By listening to the experts, of course!

(click to go see a list of just a few of our ‘experts’)

You should only ever take advice about something from people who are, or have what you want.

If they’re not living the way you want to live, then why on earth would you ever listen to them? If they knew what they were walking about, then they would already have implemented their own advice.

I can’t call Ben or myself spectacular people. We are just ordinary human beings. We try to make good choices, and we try to be the best we can be. But we are still humans.

And so we point to the experts. We take advice from people who are living the successful lives we want to live, and

We have produced some spectacular children, if I do say so myself.

And I’m not the only one who says this.

Yes, our children are still children. They fight. The quarrel. They make messes. They tease each other. The forget to put their dirty dishes away. They are kids.

But they are amazing. Truly amazing.

People tell us all the time how fantastic our kids are. At the store, at the park, at church, everywhere. We are always receiving comments on how great this bunch of kids is.

And I cannot attribute this to just Ben or myself.

Our kids are not the way they are because we homeschool. Homeschooling makes our lives easier, better, and just plain more fun. But we cannot attribute the awesomeness of our children to homeschooling alone. Our children are the awesome human beings that they are because, from the very beginning, Ben and I have worked hard to teach them to EXPAND. To build the people around them and contribute to the world.

To Expand

The concepts and skills that we have been teaching our children for the last 10 years should not be kept to ourselves. Because we did not conceptualize them in the first place. Every trait that we try to instill into our kids, we learned from some of the greats. Experts in their fields. You’re familiar with the phrase, “You Are What You Eat” Well the following is also true

You Are What You Read

And since we could not find any children’s books that could effectively teach the kids what Ben and I had learned through years of reading great books, we decided to write our own.

Victorious Kids

We asked the question, ‘How to teach your children life success skills’? The goal of Victorious Kids is to help teach children everywhere these crucial life skills, and in a way that the child will understand and internalize. It’s one thing to teach a child to sew on a button. It’s quite another to teach a child how to look outside themselves and Expand, and I mean REALLY EXPAND, the world around them.

Go to our Victorious Kids landing page now!

Or go straight to our newest book, Brave.

How to Teach Kids Success Principles