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Category: Emotional Intelligence

Summer Goals and Portfolio Building

Do you actually sit down and set goals with your kids?  Share your experiences! I’m big on goal setting.  I have my own mission and goals I visit often, and so do my kids.  I read and listen to leaders in education and 21st century businesses announce that our kids need to not merely have …

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Do Kids Who Play Video Games Really Have an Evolutionary Advantage?

Parents have always known what positive psychology (the study of what makes us happy) now reinforces: short term “extrinsic” rewards might make us joyful in the moment but they don’t lead to happiness.  Happiness wells up from a sense of being fully alive, focused, and engaged in every moment; from a feeling of power, heroic …

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Preventing Drug and Alcohol Addiction

It is a very bloody, violent rage of a song. A reader sent me the link. Ben Breedlove, whose inspiration life story YouTube recording I mentioned in the last blog, spoke of a dream where he was greeted by Kid Cudi (a rap star) quoting lines from his song Mr. Rager. I watch it – …

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Dreams and Hopes for a New Year in the Eighth Continent

Eighteen year old Ben Breedlove died on Christmas Day, leaving behind a touching video on the heart condition that took his life.  This young man, who had struggled since age four with the fear of a young death, used social media to reach out to his friends and make new friends.  Ben created the popular …

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