Those of us who work with children too often see the emotional impact current life circumstances have on our students. The typical “helping response” is to label, test, or separate in order to manage the unhealthy behaviors which we encounter. A young person’s painful experiences...
In an essay for NPR’s segment This I Believe, Phil Powers the executive director of the American Alpine Club described some wisdom that was shared with him by an “old mountain Climber named Paul Petzholdt” who advised Phil to “rest in the middle of each...
I once heard a talk by the late H. Stephen Glenn, co-author of Raising Self-Reliant Children in a Self-Indulgent World, in which he told a story of how he and his 6-year-old son worked together welding a tie rod on their tractor. When they...