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Category: Vision

Musically Gifted: Tools to Help Parent

Do you believe your child is musically gifted? They may –       think in terms of chords or harmony, –       look at numerous lines of music on a page and hear it in their head, –       quickly learn to read and play music, –       show creative improvisational talent, –       enjoy composition, –       live as though they …

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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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Temporary Setback or Epic Fail?

For those who have been following the Grow a Generation blog, you may have noticed a deadline came and went.  The book, Grow a Generation: Parenting in the 21st Century did not get published in time for the April 2012 deadline.  Quietly, I went into the website and marketing brochures and switched the “upcoming” date …

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A Worthy Quest: Chip Conley’s “Peak” and A Teenager’s Pyramid of Needs

We fear our highest possibilities. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moment, under the most perfect conditions, under conditions of greatest courage. We enjoy and even thrill to the godlike possibilities we see in ourselves in such peak moments. And yet we simultaneously shiver with weakness, …

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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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Permanent link to this article: https://growageneration.com/2012/01/13/addictions-and-sparks/

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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