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...
by Rich Patterson | Sep 2, 2019 | Parenting, Resilience
What Kids Need: Extracurricular Activities Supported by various studies, kids who participate in extracurricular activities in school have greater resilience in life. That resilience makes them able to bounce back when the going gets tough. 61% of those resilient...
by Rich Patterson | Aug 23, 2019 | Parenting, Resilience
What Kids Need: School Boundaries We’ve been discussing the interpretations of the 40 Developmental Assets for Youth from the Search-Institute. Today we’re looking at School Boundaries. In general, schools are good about establishing the various rules...
by Rich Patterson | Aug 14, 2019 | Parenting, Resilience
What Kids Need: Useful Roles Do you want to add value to a young person? Please give them a valuable role in a community event, school event, or other such program or meeting. Give a function to a young person that would typically go to an older adult. First, you...
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