“Run! Run from the dragon as fast as we can!” When my children were very little, so little their little legs moved quick but traveled slow and their attention was enraptured by every pebble, line and shadow, I grew impatient and a bit frightened by backing cars on the walk from the car to the …
Category Archive: Vision
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Oct 23
Childhood Dreams
Children can and do change the world. They recognize injustice, they experience fear and anger. The father of the Buddha tried to protect him from all suffering, injustice, and anguish. He created a beautiful bubble for him, a bubble of plenty of sweet food, no harsh words, no sickness, no poverty, and no loss. The …
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Aug 19
Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World
USA Today calls Tony Wagner’s latest book “A road map for parents who want to sculpt their children into innovative thinkers.” I couldn’t agree more. Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World focuses on what we must do differently, as parents and educators, in a globalized and technologically altered world …
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Jul 13
Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
I just finished reading Switch by Chip and Dan Heath from the perspective of a person and parent trying to understand how to motivate myself and my child to action. It was a great complement to Kahneman’s Thinking Fast and Slow reviewed last month. The Heath’s metaphor for what Kahneman called System One and System …
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Jun 22
Musically Gifted: Tools to Help Parent
Special thanks to Ruth Catchen, Tracy Martin, Dr. Barry Bittman, Stephen Cantazarite, and Marisa Youngs as co-authors and contributors to this week’s blog. Do you believe your child is musically gifted? They may - think in terms of chords or harmony, - look at numerous lines of music on a page and hear it in …
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Jun 08
Summer Goals and Portfolio Building
Do you actually sit down and set goals with your kids? Share your experiences! I’m big on goal setting. I have my own mission and goals I visit often, and so do my kids. I read and listen to leaders in education and 21st century businesses announce that our kids need to not merely have …
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May 23
Temporary Setback or Epic Fail?
For those who have been following the Grow a Generation blog, you may have noticed a deadline came and went. The book, Grow a Generation: Parenting in the 21st Century did not get published in time for the April 2012 deadline. Quietly, I went into the website and marketing brochures and switched the “upcoming” date …
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Apr 05
A Worthy Quest: Chip Conley’s “Peak” and A Teenager’s Pyramid of Needs
We fear our highest possibilities. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moment, under the most perfect conditions, under conditions of greatest courage. We enjoy and even thrill to the godlike possibilities we see in ourselves in such peak moments. And yet we simultaneously shiver with weakness, …
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Jan 13
Preventing Drug and Alcohol Addiction
It is a very bloody, violent rage of a song. A reader sent me the link. Ben Breedlove, whose inspiration life story YouTube recording I mentioned in the last blog, spoke of a dream where he was greeted by Kid Cudi (a rap star) quoting lines from his song Mr. Rager. I watch it – …
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Dec 30
Dreams and Hopes for a New Year in the Eighth Continent
Eighteen year old Ben Breedlove died on Christmas Day, leaving behind a touching video on the heart condition that took his life. This young man, who had struggled since age four with the fear of a young death, used social media to reach out to his friends and make new friends. Ben created the popular …
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