by Rich Patterson | Oct 4, 2019 | Behaviors, Being your best, communication, Confidence, Connecting with kids, Conversations, Friendship-Making Skills, Resilience, Resiliency, Self-Confidence, self-esteem, Self-Improvement
What Kids Need: Friendship-Making Skills The Search Institute lists Friendship-Making Skills as Asset #27 on their list of the 40 Developmental Assets for Youth. The ability to make and keep friends is another lifelong skill that serves us all our life. When we are...
by Rich Patterson | Sep 27, 2019 | Assets for Youth, Belief, Boundaries, communication, Connecting with kids, Conversations, Family & Relationships, High-Risk Behaviors, Kids & Adults, Parenting, Parents, Personal Standards, Positive behaviors, Resilience, Resiliency, Setting Limits, Sexual Activity, sexual restraint, Teenagers, Teens, What kids need
What Kids Need: Sexual Restraint Kids believe that it is essential to abstain from sex, according to the Search Institute’s youth survey of nearly three-million kids. Most are willing to postpone becoming sexually active; however, in the same survey, only 36%...
by Rich Patterson | Aug 9, 2019 | Connecting with kids, Conversations, Discipline, Expectations, Families, Family & Relationships, Grades, Parenting, Parents, Positive Parenting, Resilience, Self-Confidence, self-esteem, Teenagers, Truancy
What Kids Need: Parents to Keep Track As a school administrator for many years, at any one time, I was working with around 700+ kids. I would look at their attendance, grades, and all aspects of their school life that I could, along with my other duties. When I...
by Rich Patterson | Aug 5, 2019 | Behaviors, Connecting with kids, Conversations, Expectations, Family & Relationships, Parenting, Personal Standards, Setting Limits, Teenagers, Teens
What Kids Need: Personal Standards In this series, I have been addressing What Kids Need in their lives to be resilient in their thinking, choices, values, integrity, and friendships. In this post, I will talk about a favorite topic of mine, Personal Standards. It...
by Rich Patterson | Aug 2, 2019 | Behaviors, Being your best, Conversations, Defiant Kids, Expectations, Families, Family & Relationships, Parenting, Parents, Positive behaviors, Positive Parenting, resolving conflicts, Teenagers, Teens
What Kids Need: Expectations The human psyche default, without any guidelines or expectations, is generally to the negative. We must have some general guidelines that we provide as parents to our kids to avoid ending up in a sticky mess like this photo. I...
by Rich Patterson | Jul 31, 2019 | Confidence, Connecting with kids, Conversations, Encouragement, Families, Family & Relationships, Parenting, Parents
What Kids Need: Parents as a Resource It seems nearly impossible when listening to our young person, to not give advice. As parents, we have so many stories, have lived so many situations and endured various circumstances that we can, at times, see what is coming. ...
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