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PROMOTE AUTONOMY
Encourage your children to take initiatives and make them
responsible for performing certain necessary tasks for the whole
family. Ask your children to budget their weekly and/or monthly
expenses and encourage them to make their own purchases, within
the agreed limits. Help your children manage their time by dividing it
by the various activities, according to priorities they assume. Help
your children feel they have control over their own lives.

Encourage your children to research information about the life of a
personality they admire (e.g. through interviews and/or biographies).
Take advantage of several opportunities for your children to learn
through the example of others, or through personal experience, the
importance of taking responsibility for the conduct of one's own life
with determination and effort.

PROMOTE CURIOSITY

To what extent have your children already had the opportunity to be
‘put to the test’ in concrete experiences? Ask them about the
situations in which they perceived issues about themselves more
deeply. Think together with your children what kind of experiences
they can do to help them explore more areas they are competent in
(which they do successfully), which are of interest to them and which
they care about (and do with satisfaction) and to which they give
value (which allows them to achieve important goals
To what extent have your children been active in observing and
exploring to learn more about educational and training opportunities?
What occupations do they know and what do they know about them?
Encourage your children to expand their knowledge in this area by
identifying and using sources of information, namely by consulting
information available on the Internet, speaking or accompanying a
professional during a day at work. Encourage your children to
broaden their knowledge of the labour market by experimenting with
certain professional activities through short internships, part-time or
work during holidays.

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