Resilience: Why So Many Parents Today Are Getting It Wrong, By Annie Lussenburg

Resilience: Why So Many Parents Today Are Getting It Wrong, By Annie Lussenburg

Nov 20, 2012 | Preparation

You see, resilience comes out of a struggle. That’s it, there’s no other way to get it. Take the wrong bus and end up at the wrong stop will build you resilience but only if you aren’t able to place a rescue call for someone to pick you up. Failing math and having to try harder: There’s a good one. Having to go to another soccer game and try again because the last time you mucked up and everyone is mad at you. Realizing that a course or activity you thought you’d enjoy is just terrible but sticking with it anyway, even though you’re sometimes miserable.

To Touch A Future Sky: Raising Children In Changing Times, By Dianne Monroe

To Touch A Future Sky: Raising Children In Changing Times, By Dianne Monroe

Jul 26, 2011 | Options/ New Paradigm

“How can we nurture and raise children so they can grow into adults who are able to survive, thrive and contribute to new ways of being with the Earth and each other? ” This how I pose this question to myself as I look into the hopeful eyes of the children whose lives I have the opportunity to touch through my work. It is perhaps this sense of contributing to new ways of being with the Earth and each other that will make it possible for the youth of today to survive and thrive in a challenging and rapidly changing world.