An old friend from high school has been traveling and living in Asia, Africa, South America, and even Antarctica, for some time now. Thanks to social media channels, I've been able to follow his wanderings, and be inspired remotely by his adventures, insights, stories. I love reading his posts, hearing about his latest experiences in …
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When a buddy of mine and his wife had their kids about ten years back, my friend told me about this book by Meg Meeker, an MD that's done a lot of work with kids. He said it gave him a lot of good insights with parenting his daughter. So when my wife and I …
Continue reading Some of the Best from Meg Meeker’s “Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters”
Kids are particularly good at using their imagination. It's that way during play time when they conjure up any number of things that enhance their pretend world. That's also the case when they're afraid, imagining the monster in the closet or under the bed is about to pounce and eat them. For adults, imagination is …
Listening to the radio on the way to work recently, they were doing a piece on "true grit", defined for the discussion as Persistence, Determination and Resilience -- and a rise of said attitude in the context of education. Really though, it's applicable across environments. They had me at the introduction when they mentioned John Wayne's …
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