by Rich Patterson | Sep 23, 2019 | Parenting, Resilience, Teenagers
What Kids Need: Global Concerns The news has recently been running a video regarding the century-old ice that is melting in the Arctic. I have found that your youth today, of all age groups, have a genuine concern for the environment, as well as other global...
by Rich Patterson | Sep 22, 2019 | Parenting, Resilience, Teenagers
What Kids Need: Helping Others In this photo, you see a teenager helping an elementary student play a game or with homework. A survey on youth by the Search Institute shows that kids believe that it is essential to help others and work to help them improve their...
by Rich Patterson | Sep 21, 2019 | Parenting, Resilience, Teenagers
What Kids Need: Encouraging Kids to Achieve “My child used to get such good grades; I don’t know what happened. Since he arrived in high school, everything seems to be going downhill.” As an experienced school administrator, I used to hear this...
by Rich Patterson | Sep 20, 2019 | Parenting, Resilience, Teenagers
What Kids Need: Homework There is a movement in schools today where teachers do not assign homework. They give the kids time to do it all in class, or so they say. But what is the value of doing homework? Is there a value? I believe that there is value in doing...
by Rich Patterson | Sep 13, 2019 | Parenting, Resilience, Teenagers
What Kids Need: School Performance Student performance without parental involvement becomes apathy very quickly for kids. Stay on top of your child’s school performance by using all of the technology tools and the good old standard ones like a phone call. ...
by Rich Patterson | Sep 11, 2019 | Parenting, Resilience, Teenagers
What Kids Need: Educational Aspiration The Bureau of Labor Statistics data on Measuring the Value of Education states that a person with less than a high school education earns an average of $500 a week! You absolutely cannot live with any degree of effectiveness on...
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