Three Ways To Help Your Child find their life calling
Here are three concepts you can use in your family to help your child embrace their hero’s journey to find a calling that will change the world.
1. Look for sparks and gifts in your child
Here are three concepts you can use in your family to help your child embrace their hero’s journey to find a calling that will change the world.
1. Look for sparks and gifts in your child
Khan Academy (KA) is a website with short videos and adaptive game-based exercises in a wide variety of subjects, most notably math, where it covers from “1+1=2” to advanced Calculus.
Every once in a while you meet someone who is truly inspiring. Today I had the privilege of meeting Elizabeth Sullivan who recently moved to Las Cruces.
What is appropriate parental authority?
This is something we’ll explore more deeply with the Eagles in the fall as we circle back around to one of the most powerful Overarching Questions of all: When does a hero submit to authority?
7. A pleasing personality. No slovenly, careless person can become a successful leader.
8. Sympathy and understanding. 9 Mastery of detail.
It can be quite challenging parenting a child when you feel they’ve got one up on you! I know how that feels because I have two Acton hats
Our goal is to equip and inspire our Acton Eagles to be brave scientific paradigm busters, puzzler creators and data gathers, even if they never choose science as a calling.
As much as we talk about the love and fun of learning at Acton, there is one truth we cannot get around:
1. I must embrace a bit of suffering for deep learning to happen.
I don’t know if I am giving my children the same moments in time that my father gave me. Parenting is hard. I get scared when I want them to succeed so I jump in – just before they fail
Today I hope to loosen the collars in my midst. But Hobbes’ will remain a bit on the tighter side until he Learns to Be a good dog.