Conversations With Kids: Comfort Zones

Improves:

• Challenging yourself

• Overcoming fears

Directions for Parents:

Your comfort zone is the space in your head where you feel safe.  A place that doesn’t stretch you beyond what you think you can do.  Challenging yourself is important for growing and learning.  Yet we all have a threshold for being uncomfortable.  How high that threshold is varies from child to child.  The higher your threshold, the more comfortable you are with being uncomfortable.  As a parent, feel free to tell your children what makes you feel comfortable and what stretches you.

Ideas for Kids:

1. What places, situations and environments are you comfortable or nice and cosy?
2. Do you recognise different situations or events that push you, they are the zones where good stuff eventually happens. (Eg, trials, performing, doing extra training, asking questions, homework, lifting weights)?
3. When you do push yourself, what emotions do you feel, what do you visualise and what do you say to yourself.