I am in Washington, DC this week with my family. Each day, our travels have brought us face-to-face with the work of various leaders who have had a significant impact on our world. Some of them have been presidents. Others have been artists or inventors. All of them dared to…
Bright people experience the world deeply. The vast range of emotions are complex and intense with extreme variations of highs and lows. Kazimierz Dabrowski, a Polish psychologist and psychiatrist, studied and documented these findings in the 1960’s. He determined that the emotional intensity found in this population is rooted in…
Our world seems to honor speed. It’s all about how much we can accomplish in the least amount of time. Many jobs are tied to productivity which is essentially the speed in which products or services can be provided to the marketplace. Some people equate speed with intelligence. Many…
Many bright children suffer from a paralyzing fear of failure. For that matter, may adults do too. It is often the one thing that stands in the way of people living the life they truly want to live. Today, I am sharing this amazing video with you. It is one…
I often have parents ask me about how often their child should miss school if they aren’t sick. I am going to share one idea and you can determine if it might work for your family. Our family policy was inspired by a dear friend who happened to…
Dear Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Your life changed our world. Forty-nine years after your death, we still honor you and teach our children about respecting differences in others. But it’s still not right. We are all different, but some differences remain much more socially acceptable than others….
We all want our children to grow up to be happy and healthy. The greatest gift we can give them to that end is a spirit of gratitude. A child who expresses gratitude on a daily basis learns to find the good within the bad. They learn to think optimistically. This…
One of my biggest passions is providing children an opportunity for work and entrepreneurship. I believe that these experiences offer one of the richest avenues for learning and growth beyond the classroom walls. I’m sure this thinking stems from my own childhood experience. When I was a freshman in…
It is 3:30am. I am awakened by my thoughts. My shoulders are tight. So tight, they hurt. I know that I need to write. It’s about the election and our world and most importantly, our children. No matter what our political persuasion, our critical thinking, sensitive, idealistic children…
There is one commonality that separates us: FEAR. We are all scared of something. Scared of losing stability. Scared of losing our identity. Scared of losing money. Scared of losing dignity. Scared of war. Scared of dying. Scared for the future of our children. We are all looking for a…
