by Rich Patterson | Feb 21, 2020 | Character, Parenting
Roots, Patience, and Presence We have discussed the benefit of examining the roots in our lives and comparing them to tree roots. We have talked about taking the time to establish a solid foundation for ourselves from which we can operate. In a previous post, we...
by Rich Patterson | Jan 31, 2020 | Parenting, Resilience
Six Ways of Building Assets in Your Community-2 I have been discussing in the previous two posts about building assets in your community. In the last post, I listed three ways to begin the process of asset building and would like to list three additional courses to...
by Rich Patterson | Jan 29, 2020 | Parenting, Resilience
Building Assets in Your Community, Six Ways-1 In the previous post, I wrote an introduction to building assets in your community. In this post, I was like to discuss three of six ways to get started in your town. Taking on this project for your community with a...
by Rich Patterson | Jan 27, 2020 | Parenting, Resilience
Building Assets in Your Community For some time now, I have been writing about the benefits of building assets with young people. Asset building is the mission of the Search Institute (https://search-institute.org) using their huge research database to create the 40...
by Rich Patterson | Jan 24, 2020 | Encouragement, Parenting
Summary of Overcoming Deficits with Kids In the past two posts, I have been discussing how to help disadvantaged kids overcome their deficits. In previous posts, I have discussed some situations that add to their lack of resilience. We have looked at things to do to...
by Rich Patterson | Jan 22, 2020 | Encouragement, Parenting
Overcoming Difficulties with Kids It was a difficult decision; I had an opportunity for a new position in another state, but our son was a Junior in high school, and I knew that moving for him would be difficult. My wife and I sat down and discussed it with him to...
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