by Rich Patterson | Sep 25, 2019 | Parenting, Resilience, Teenagers
What Kids Need: Empathy Empathy is the ability to understand and share the deep feelings of another person. It often happens when a good friend listens to you when you’re frustrated, and they can rephrase what you’re saying with the same passion,...
by Rich Patterson | Sep 23, 2019 | Parenting, Resilience, Teenagers
What Kids Need: Global Concerns The news has recently been running a video regarding the century-old ice that is melting in the Arctic. I have found that your youth today, of all age groups, have a genuine concern for the environment, as well as other global...
by Rich Patterson | Sep 22, 2019 | Parenting, Resilience, Teenagers
What Kids Need: Helping Others In this photo, you see a teenager helping an elementary student play a game or with homework. A survey on youth by the Search Institute shows that kids believe that it is essential to help others and work to help them improve their...
by Rich Patterson | Sep 21, 2019 | Parenting, Resilience, Teenagers
What Kids Need: Encouraging Kids to Achieve “My child used to get such good grades; I don’t know what happened. Since he arrived in high school, everything seems to be going downhill.” As an experienced school administrator, I used to hear this...
by Rich Patterson | Sep 20, 2019 | Parenting, Resilience, Teenagers
What Kids Need: Homework There is a movement in schools today where teachers do not assign homework. They give the kids time to do it all in class, or so they say. But what is the value of doing homework? Is there a value? I believe that there is value in doing...
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