by Rich Patterson | Feb 7, 2020 | Character, Encouragement, Resilience
Difficulties Have an Expiration Date – Part 3 Living more gently in a more relaxed way, with a gentle approach to life, allows us to hear and see more clearly. The difficulty can be located and overcome with care when we realize that we don’t need to...
by Rich Patterson | Feb 5, 2020 | Character, Encouragement, Resilience
Difficulties Have an Expiration Date In the previous post, I wrote that the things that happen to us in this Life are only temporary and that we can’t get to where we need to go without the struggle. But why the battle? Why can’t it be easy? Stuart...
by Rich Patterson | Feb 3, 2020 | Character, Encouragement, Resilience
Difficulties Have an Expiration Date Today I am writing to everyone, not just kids and families, but for everyone. Sometimes out of the blue, something creeps into your life, invited or uninvited, to cause problems, challenges, difficulties. You get up after a great...
by Rich Patterson | Jan 31, 2020 | Parenting, Resilience
Six Ways of Building Assets in Your Community-2 I have been discussing in the previous two posts about building assets in your community. In the last post, I listed three ways to begin the process of asset building and would like to list three additional courses to...
by Rich Patterson | Jan 29, 2020 | Parenting, Resilience
Building Assets in Your Community, Six Ways-1 In the previous post, I wrote an introduction to building assets in your community. In this post, I was like to discuss three of six ways to get started in your town. Taking on this project for your community with a...
by Rich Patterson | Jan 27, 2020 | Parenting, Resilience
Building Assets in Your Community For some time now, I have been writing about the benefits of building assets with young people. Asset building is the mission of the Search Institute (https://search-institute.org) using their huge research database to create the 40...
by Rich Patterson | Jan 24, 2020 | Encouragement, Parenting
Summary of Overcoming Deficits with Kids In the past two posts, I have been discussing how to help disadvantaged kids overcome their deficits. In previous posts, I have discussed some situations that add to their lack of resilience. We have looked at things to do to...
by Rich Patterson | Jan 22, 2020 | Encouragement, Parenting
Overcoming Difficulties with Kids It was a difficult decision; I had an opportunity for a new position in another state, but our son was a Junior in high school, and I knew that moving for him would be difficult. My wife and I sat down and discussed it with him to...
by Rich Patterson | Jan 20, 2020 | Encouragement, Parenting
Difficulties With Kids As a high-altitude snowmobiler, I am familiar with the problems one faces riding in the mountains. We meet our challenges more easily when friends and those of like interest surround us. When we all work together to make it happen, so it is...
by Rich Patterson | Jan 17, 2020 | Encouragement, Parenting, Resilience
What Kids Need: Hope You may be thinking, but no one gave me hope; I just seemed to have it already. Today, less than 70% of kids report having a positive view of their future and feeling optimistic about their lives. As an educator of many years, both teacher and...
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