by Rich Patterson | Feb 14, 2020 | Personal Improvement
Train Your Perceptions – 2 We have been talking about modulating your emotions, monitoring them to reduce the intensity and length of an emotional outburst, mainly as applied to anger. Another tool of Executive Function is focusing, shifting of attention of...
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 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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