by Rich Patterson | Sep 25, 2019 | Parenting, Resilience, Teenagers
What Kids Need: Empathy Empathy is the ability to understand and share the deep feelings of another person. It often happens when a good friend listens to you when you’re frustrated, and they can rephrase what you’re saying with the same passion,...
by Rich Patterson | Sep 6, 2019 | Parenting, Resilience
What Kids Need: Participation in a Faith-Based Community We have been talking about resilience and how it adds a Teflon® coating to young people making them less vulnerable to the distractions of life and more able to bounce back during the tough times. Participation...
by Rich Patterson | Sep 4, 2019 | Parenting, Resilience
What Kids Need: Community Activities Remember those “good kids” that participate in extracurricular activities? 41% of those same kids also participate in clubs and organizations outside of school, according to the Search-Institute of Minneapolis. Take...
by Rich Patterson | Aug 5, 2019 | Parenting, Resilience
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 | Feb 20, 2019 | Character, Communication, Encouragement
Attitude of Gratitude Now and then, I catch myself saying words that do not help anything of anybody. They add to difficulties in life. Complaining or finding the good are choices, but they are not our default. It seems that the negative side of things will always...
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