by Rich Patterson | Aug 14, 2019 | Parenting, Resilience
What Kids Need: Useful Roles Do you want to add value to a young person? Please give them a valuable role in a community event, school event, or other such program or meeting. Give a function to a young person that would typically go to an older adult. First, you... by Rich Patterson | Aug 12, 2019 | Parenting, Resilience
What Kids Need: Community Recognition When my dad was older, he told me about when he went to the mall and sat on a bench to rest. As people walked by this busy part of the mall, he noticed that no one, not one person, looked at him. The image stuck with me, and I... by Rich Patterson | Aug 9, 2019 | Parenting, Resilience
What Kids Need: Parents to Keep Track As a school administrator for many years, at any one time, I was working with around 700+ kids. I would look at their attendance, grades, and all aspects of their school life that I could, along with my other duties. When I... by Rich Patterson | Aug 7, 2019 | Parenting, Resilience
What Kids Need: Parental Discipline Okay, you have established some rules, set some consequences, negotiated this upfront in advance of a big problem, and solicited your child’s feedback. Now what? Now, you must enforce those consequences as agreed. Enforcing... by Rich Patterson | Aug 5, 2019 | Parenting, Resilience
What Kids Need: Personal Standards In this series, I have been addressing What Kids Need in their lives to be resilient in their thinking, choices, values, integrity, and friendships. In this post, I will talk about a favorite topic of mine, Personal Standards. It... by Rich Patterson | Aug 2, 2019 | Parenting, Resilience
What Kids Need: Expectations The human psyche default, without any guidelines or expectations, is generally to the negative. We must have some general guidelines that we provide to our kids to avoid ending up in a sticky mess like this photo. I don’t know if...
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