Tag: teen empowerment
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Freewill and the Education of Our Youth
Do we have freewill? And, what does this question have to do with how we raise our youth? Many, especially in the West, assert that we have freewill, absolutely. Indeed, this is for what so many battles have been fought starting with the American Revolution. Others, especially in the East, would perhaps deny freewill, saying…
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What Do We Talk About in Teen Empowerment?
A few years ago, we began a weekly Teen Empowerment Class here at Enkindle Academy to address the meaning crisis emerging in our precious youth. In this post, we will elaborate what we talk about in this class and why it matters so much. First, let’s explore what it means to empower teens. Fundamentally, it…
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The Relationship Between Love and Learning
What’s love got to do with it? In a previous post, we explored how to cultivate a love of learning in children. In this post, we will take it a step further in exploring the relationship between love and learning by looking at techniques and outcomes of how we educate our children. First, we have…
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What We do in Teen Empowerment
Enkindle Academy offers a weekly Teen Empowerment Class to students in 6th Grade and above. We began offering this class over a year ago out of the pressing need to give young people a safe and supportive place to become themselves. We lack such spaces in the West today. Most, if not all, traditional and…
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Secular vs. Spiritual Education
In this post, we discuss secular vs. spiritual education and what matters most in this conversation. First of all, Enkindle Academy offers a secular curriculum. That means different things to different people. What we mean by “secular” here is a non-religious, non-sectarian, curriculum inclusive of diverse worldviews. In other words, it does not pressure students…
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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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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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Mentors for Teens
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Today, we will turn to the age old conundrum that has no doubt plagued parents for centuries. It goes something like this, “Why doesn’t my teen listen to me anymore?” We’ll unpack this all-too-common challenge and propose a solution that has to do with finding mentors for teens. The Need to Rebel It’s true. Adolescents…
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Teen Mental Health
The world has never experienced a mental dis-ease epidemic like the meaning crisis we currently face. There are many reasons for this, materialism being the most pernicious. Like a deeply rooted weed, it infests the garden of society’s soul. We have grown accustomed to looking at everything from the outside in and trying to remedy…