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...
by Rich Patterson | Jan 20, 2020 | Encouragement, Parenting
Difficulties With Kids As a high-altitude snowmobiler, I am familiar with the problems one faces riding in the mountains. We meet our challenges more easily when friends and those of like interest surround us. When we all work together to make it happen, so it is...
by Rich Patterson | Jan 17, 2020 | Encouragement, Parenting, Resilience
What Kids Need: Hope You may be thinking, but no one gave me hope; I just seemed to have it already. Today, less than 70% of kids report having a positive view of their future and feeling optimistic about their lives. As an educator of many years, both teacher and...
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