This month we’ve been looking at teaching life skills. Perhaps the hardest life skill for me to teach my guys has been the skills of coping. On one hand, coping skills are only necessary when your life doesn’t go well and their life has gone fairly well. On the other hand, they don’t know that […]
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Making phone calls seems to be a difficult task. So difficult in fact that my husband delegates all of our phone calls to me. The whole idea of calling a place that he doesn’t know, talking to a person he doesn’t know, and asking questions that he doesn’t know stresses him out. This is the
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It may seem obvious; this idea of teaching life skills. However, I’d wager that you don’t have a systematic or authoritative method for instilling these particular skills in your children. Don’t panic though. The very nature of life skills is that they come with experience, and generally not the kind of experiences that we enjoy.
As this past school year starts to wane, I’ve met some surprises. One of the most surprising things to me has been how the students in my classes have formed a small community, even though they’ve never seen each other’s faces. Through the live public chat box and the informal meetings like our Monday problem
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Are you in a mastermind? Now, I know what you’re thinking: what’s a mastermind? Actually, it’s more likely that you know what a mastermind is and are a member of a great one. Or perhaps you are like Fessik and say, “I am the mastermind”. Regardless of your participation or lack thereof, a mastermind can
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