Category: Teen Empowerment
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The Meaning of Advent + Week 1: Stones, and Week 2: Plants
Advent refers to the four weeks leading up to Christmas. In this post we’ll explore the meaning of Advent. However, this is not intended for Christians only because the principles herein are universally applicable. I use the symbolism of Advent as useful imagery to make important points, but my intention is to speak beyond the…
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The Vital Role of Arts in Education
American society has long been questioning the role of arts in education. Are they necessary? As district budgets have tightened, arts have been the first to go in many cases. In fact, according to the Arts Education Data Project (AEDP), in the 2018–19 school year roughly 2.1 million U.S. public-school students lacked access to any…
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The Science of Gratitude
The science of gratitude is getting much research attention these days. In an era where increasing many are plagued by a meaning crisis, this is a blessing. In this post, we’ll explore the demonstrated benefits of a gratitude practice and what it means for your children. Herein, what we mean by “gratitude” is doing a…
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What is Educating for Freedom?
All parents want their children to become free human beings. Before we consider educating for freedom, however, we have to distinguish what human freedom is and is not. There are different definitions of freedom, some more outer and others more inner. (Although outer freedom from exploitation, racism, etc. is vitally important, it’s not the focus…
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5 Tips for How to Raise Creative Children
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Again and again I hear parents’ wish for their children to grow up creative. They don’t want the education process to beat it out of them, so to speak. Growing up creative doesn’t necessarily mean becoming a visual artist, musician, or dancer for example (although it could). More broadly, it means growing up retaining the…
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How to Cultivate Creative Thinking in Our Students
In this post, we’ll continue last week’s thread by discussing the right approach for cultivating creative thinking in our students. The basis of creative thinking is intuition. New creation comes from what is unseen in the realm of new potential, possibility, and connections that have not previously been made. Intuition is exactly that which gives…
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The Meaning Crisis In Youth and What to Do About It
With all that modern life hath wrought for us, are today’s youth happier? Or, are they suffering from a great meaning crisis? The literature around the so-called Anxious Generation is clear: teens are more depressed and disoriented than any generation in which we’ve paid enough attention to measure it. How has this come about? At…
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Cultivating a Love of Learning in Children
Cultivating a love of learning is the most important thing we can do in children today. We can do this with every child if we know how to approach it. It matters because this can make or break a child’s future. Yet, it’s not so simple as making them love what they don’t love. That…
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The Power of Intention
The power of intention, popularized by the late great Wayne Dyer, expresses itself in the biographies of many extraordinary people. In this post, I focus on the realized of intention of a once young baseball fan back in 1990s Los Angeles. His name is Giancarlo Stanton, a slugger currently playing for the Yankees. A prodigious…
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Michaelmas, 2025
Today is Michaelmas, otherwise known as the Day of Courage. It is the time in the year when the cooling forces of autumn sober the party of summertime growth. It is also the harvest time. In most Waldorf schools, stories are told, songs are sung, and a pageant features the Archangel Michael taming the terrible…