You Kinda Have to Watch It

Great video by Simon Sinek 

I don't mean to be dark, but if we think we have challenges now?????  We are currently sipping from a little cocktail straw. Twenty years from now we are going to be drinking from a fire hose. 

And stay with him. He is NOT bashing millennials. He is asking us to understand them. He is asking us to care.

Love to hear your thoughts.

The Parenting Meltdown

The State of the School 2016

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... Good parents prevent failure. This is one I think that we all sort of scam ourselves with. “I let my kids fail.” Most of us won’t even let our children get frustrated zipping their coats without intervention. The result? Adults who do not have experience to know that failure is actually a step on the road to somewhere. Not a final destination. Nor a final devastation.

Suffering. Surely nothing good can come of this. It all depends on the event. When a child makes a blatantly destructive, selfish or mean spirited choice, let the suffering begin. There is no substitute. No work-around. A parent who intervenes in this process is raising an adult who will not readily associate her choices with the impact it has on those around her. But what about the suffering at the hands of others or fate? In this case, offer comfort, offer perspective, offer hot soup. Anything but intervention. (I am hoping we can all set aside for the sake of this essay things like abuse and agree that these are not the circumstances to which I am referring. More along the lines of, “I’m not allowed to sit with my friends.” Or “The coach never puts me in.” Statements that often end with, “It’s not fair!”) In these cases, a young soul just needs some comfort and strong encouragement to get back up on the horse...