Families can be together forever!: Hailey, Miles, and goals

Sunday, August 14, 2016

Hailey, Miles, and goals

Recently I was introduced to the idea of intrinsic motivation which is where one is motivated to reach a goal from within and not from an external factors. So I was curious about my children. What are they intrinsically motivated to do?? No pressure from friends, mom and dad, or teachers, just something they want to accomplish all from their own desire.

So tonight I asked Hailey as I tucked her into bed, "So Hailey what are some of your life goals? I'm just curious. It can be anything in the world. Just anything you really want to do."

She replied pretty much without missing a beat, "I want to win a gold medal in gymnastics in the Olympics. I want to go on a mission. I want to become a veterinarian and I want to be a mom."

Classic Hailey answer.

After Hailey was tucked in I walked into Miles' room. I lied down beside him to chat for a minute and asked the exact same question. "Miles what are some of your life goals? I'm just curious. It can be anything in the world. Just anything you really want to do."

Miles thinks for a while. Then says, "I want to watch all the Harry Potter movies before the end of summer."

Classic Miles answer.

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Quotes 2016

Clay was jumping from tile to tile in our kitchen, then kind of spinning on each tile, careful to stay within the square shape of each tile. I asked, "What are you doing?" and Clay responded, "I'm square dancing!"

Clay, said every time he prays: "Help us to be like the Gospel."

Clay, said another time he prayed for each person in our family that they could "do good" in either school or work when he got to me he said: "...Please bless mom that she can go to the gym." I guess that sticks out to him!

We were walking into Wells Fargo when Paige saw a man with shoulder length hair and a beard getting into his car. I was holding Paige and she grabbed my face and turns my head toward the man. Then she says, "Mom, there's Jesus!" (November 2016)

Paige: "I look like nursery!" She said this as she looked at herself in the mirror after I got her dressed for church and had just finished doing her hair. (March 2017)

"remembery" -Clay (Memory) October 2017

Joey, asking Paige: "Should I grow a prickly beard or shave and have soft cheeks?"

Paige, jumping up and down answers: "A sparkly beard!" (September 2017)

"Jew-zi-knee bread" - Paige (zucchini bread) (September 2017)

In school Miles was learning about the Great Depression. He was talking on and on about it to me and started talking about Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt. He was trying to tell me about the president known as FDR (Roosevelt) but instead he kept saying, "KFC" I couldn't figure out what he meant until he said, "You know, he was president after Hoover, everybody called him KFC". I had to explain he was actually known as FDR! (October 2017)