How to help children plan their careers?

First, pay attention to the education of children in critical period. In the early development of human beings, there is a critical period to acquire certain abilities or learn certain behaviors. During these periods, individuals are always in a state of active preparation and acceptance. At this age, parents' good education will maximize the development of students' intelligence and ability, and once the key stage of children's development is missed, the effect will be very different. The high school stage is the stage when students' psychological development is about to mature, their cognitive development is close to the adult level, and they are about to face the college entrance examination and employment choice, which is a major turning point in their lives. Therefore, when conducting psychological education for senior high school students, we should combine the characteristics of their cognitive development, comprehensively and dialectically guide children, and give scientific guidance according to their actual characteristics. Second, help children understand the nature and characteristics of different occupations. At present, the main content of China students' study before the university stage is to master knowledge, and they seldom have in-depth understanding and contact with professional information, but only have some superficial understanding through the media or hearsay. But if you want to be better in the fierce competition, you must be prepared in advance. Therefore, parents should help their children understand the nature and characteristics of different occupations in advance, which will help them to choose a career that suits them reasonably in the future. Third, communicate with children more and guide them to set their life goals correctly. The choice of occupation is a problem that parents and children should pay close attention to. Generally speaking, parents and children often have differences when choosing careers and majors. Parents think they have rich experience and practical life experience, while children are more concerned about whether they meet their own interests, whether they can give full play to my strengths and advantages, and then realize my lofty ideals. In fact, we say that children's future success depends on their own development, and parents cannot act on their behalf. Therefore, children's interests and specialties are the key and core of their future development. Parents and children should communicate frequently and frankly, and don't impose a model on their children to let them live. They should conduct a comprehensive study and try to respect their opinions. Fourth, help children analyze, judge and choose. In this era of rapid information development, the professional division of labor is getting finer and finer, and the professionalism is getting stronger and stronger. As a result, countless new occupations and professions came into being. Faced with so many occupations and majors, parents and students will inevitably have different views. At this time, parents should help their children to make comprehensive analysis, judgment and choice, and study and discuss with them equally, instead of ordering them to go. Parents should pay attention to the following points when helping their children judge and choose: 1. Get to know your children and avoid their overconfidence and desire for success. High school children often can't objectively evaluate their abilities and levels, and always hope that they can make a difference and want to succeed at a young age. When choosing a career, you should only be big, famous and enthusiastic, and volunteer to take charge of the work beyond your ability, mistakenly thinking that this is the embodiment of your life value and success. However, there is a great contrast between the reality and this psychology of choosing a job: first, the gap between supply and demand of people in hot industries is too large, and the employment rate is relatively low, which leads to the inability to work; Second, the hotter the "hot" is, the colder the "unpopular" is, which adds obstacles to the adjustment of industrial structure and makes it difficult for more people to find jobs reasonably, resulting in inaccurate career positioning. Therefore, parents should take a long-term view, cultivate a down-to-earth spirit and make plans to improve their own abilities when helping their children to locate their careers. They should not be overconfident and blindly pursue success. 2. Parents should prevent children from ignoring objective needs and only emphasize subjectivity. Generally speaking, it is a scientific method to determine the career direction according to your hobbies, but you can't regard hobbies as absolute career beliefs, which will often make you involuntarily fall into the misunderstanding of career choice. Find the best combination of hobbies and the surrounding objective environment for career planning, so as to avoid detours. 3. Parents should avoid children's lack of self-confidence and satisfy the status quo. Today's children are smart and capable, but they lack self-confidence. When I first started working, I was always worried that I was not mature in all aspects, and I was afraid that I was not competent for the job, especially when I met promotion opportunities. In addition, they are easy to meet the status quo, and always feel that their current position is already very good, or a little lower may be more appropriate. This self-destructive and self-limiting behavior is sometimes unconscious, but this unconscious behavior often forms psychological hints, thus affecting the implementation of their own and organizational career planning.