If you are noticing your children spending more time alone, glued to a screen, or struggling with confidence in social settings, you’re not alone AND you’re not imagining things. Our children are growing up in a radically different world than we did. The question isn’t “what’s wrong with kids today?” … it’s “what has changed in the world around them?” And more importantly, “What can we do now set our children up for a better future?”
You Are Not Broken
Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold. Instead of trying to hide or disguise brokenness, it turns it into the most beautiful feature of the piece. A perfect metaphor for life. This wonderful blog was written by my brilliant friend, Kasim Aslam.
Skills Worth Spending Time On
Dushka Zapata is a brilliant writer who eloquently simplifies what it takes to live a better life. Here she shares 11 skills that are worth spending time on.
The Carrot or the Stick
Stop telling others what you DON’T want them to do, and instead learn to direct people’s focus towards what you DO want them to do. As a leader or a parent, if you are regularly attempting to motivate someone by avoidance of pain, you are training that person to be mediocre. The greatest reward of a job well-done is simply to have done it. If you can help develop lifelong learners, they will succeed at almost anything!