by Rich Patterson | Dec 20, 2019 | Parenting, Resilience
Adding Value to Others Since I often write about young people and how to help them with their lives, I say that I am thinking about helping kids learn about adding value to others. However, all of this applies to us as adults as well. Adding value to others involves...
by Rich Patterson | Dec 18, 2019 | Achievement, Encouragement
Beyond High School, What’s Next? I recently spoke to a medium-sized group of middle school students about resiliency. When I asked them how many of them knew their plan after high school, every single hand went up! This group was the first group where all knew...
by Rich Patterson | Dec 16, 2019 | Parenting, Resilience
Build These Into Kids A warm hello to all our parents out there. Today I want to suggest three things to build into your kids to enhance their success. They are Educational Aspiration, School Performance, & Achievement Motivation. Let’s start with...
by Rich Patterson | Dec 14, 2019 | Parenting, Resilience
A Warm, Caring Environment If you had a checklist of things that parents can do to help create resilience for kids, such as the checklist from Search-Institute.org, at the top of that list is, “I provide a warm, caring environment for my child at home”...
by Rich Patterson | Dec 13, 2019 | Parenting, Resilience
Setting Rules & Enforcing Them Setting rules is one thing, but enforcing them is quite another. Sometimes we don’t feel like starting up with our kids to make a point. But wait! What is at stake when we don’t enforce the rules. The sign says,...
by Rich Patterson | Dec 8, 2019 | Parenting, Resilience
Resilience in Kids: Clubs & Activities I have recently written about the benefits of kids being members of sports and music organizations and how they add resilience or Teflon coating to their lives. To help them when they face difficult times or when faced with...
by Rich Patterson | Dec 8, 2019 | Parenting, Resilience
Resilience in Kids: Doing Their Best As a parent, do you encourage your young person to do their best? Of course, most parents say yes, but I would beg to differ as a school administrator. So often, in a student-parent conference, parents would discover for the...
by Rich Patterson | Dec 8, 2019 | Parenting, Resilience
Resilience in Kids: Religious Programs We want our kids to make good choices, the choices they are faced with when we are not around. We want that for our kids, yet so many kids have no faith-based examples to follow in their lives. Today I want to say that...
by Rich Patterson | Nov 29, 2019 | Parenting, Resilience
Kids’ Involvement in School Sports In my previous postings, I have written about the benefits of kids’ involvement in arts programs, like the band, orchestra, choir, and other groups. Many of the same benefits carry over with kids’ participation in...
by Rich Patterson | Nov 27, 2019 | Parenting, Resilience
Kids’ Involvement in the Arts Is your young person involved in band, orchestra, or choir or takes lessons on a musical instrument? Research has shown that kids are interested in the arts, including theater, dance, literature, visual arts, and others. As a...
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