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Category Archives: Resilience
So, You Are a Graduate. So What?
a graduate’s speech “I have a proclamation: Let today be the last day we joke that we are stupid or crazy. It’s not clever to pretend we hate what we love, and it wasn’t wrong study it. “Let today be … Continue reading
Posted in Anxiety, Calling, Challenge, Character, Creativity, Discipline, Education, Enthusiasm, Excellence, Genius, Greatness, Happiness, Imperfection, Integrity, Joy, Leadership, Resilience, Self-Actualization, Self-determination, Self-esteem, Success
Tagged building character, character, education, Genius, Leadership
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You’re Not the Boss of Me (Respectfully)
Our children are inundated with demands from the adults in their lives…. What an exhausting way to parent, especially when there are more effective ways to get the job done. –Maren Schmidt On a recent trip from Chicago to Oakland … Continue reading
Posted in Authority, Brain Development, Challenge, Character, Children, Conflict and Issues, decision-making, Discipline, Disobedience, Genius, Integrity, Leadership, Learning community, Mistakes, Montessori Education, parenting, Preschool, Resilience, Respect, Responsibility, Self-Actualization, Self-determination, Social Responsibility, Teaching, teenager, terrible two's
Tagged Authority, building character, conflict, decision making, Discipline, Genius, kids, Leadership, Parenting, parenting skills, respect, teaching, teaching responsibility
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Authority and Boundaries
It’s 5:15 pm. Mom is at the stove making dinner. Her six-year-old Brittany sees a bag of candy canes that her mother just brought home for Christmas decorations, and says, “Mommy, can I have a candy cane?” “It’s close to … Continue reading
Posted in Authority, Challenge, Character, Collaboration, Conflict and Issues, Creativity, decision-making, Discipline, Disobedience, Education, Emotional Intelligence, Failure, Genius, Leadership, Learning community, Mistakes, Parent-Teacher Partnerships, parenting, perseverance, Resilience, Respect, Responsibility, school culture, School Reform, Self-Actualization, Self-determination, Self-esteem, Social Responsibility, Success, Teaching
Tagged Authority, boundaries, building character, conflict, Discipline, education, Emotional control, Genius, kids, Leadership, Learning, Learning community, learning social skills, Parenting, parenting skills, respect, responsibility, school reform, teacher, teaching, teaching responsibility
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Defining an Educator’s Role in Self-Actualization
Michael was driving his father Josef crazy. Getting Michael to do his homework was always a bit of a challenge ever since he started getting homework in the third grade. But what was a challenge in the third grade became … Continue reading
Posted in Authority, bribery, Character, Children, Conflict and Issues, decision-making, Discipline, Disobedience, Education, Genius, Leadership, Learning community, Montessori Education, Parent-Teacher Partnerships, parenting, Resilience, Respect, Responsibility, school culture, Self-Actualization, Self-determination, Self-esteem, Social Responsibility, Success, Teaching, terrible two's, Thoughtfulness
Tagged Authority, child-rearing, conflict, decision making, Discipline, education, Emotional control, Genius, kids, Leadership, Learning community, learning social skills, Montessori Education, Parenting, parenting skills, responsibility, teaching, teaching responsibility
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