Communication, critical thinking and confidence will help your child ahead in school, on sports teams and in the ‘real’ world. Find out how improv and public speaking programs or camps can transform a shy or timid child into a self-confident leader and strong communicator in just one week.
What can parents do in the December holidays to stop the self-denial trends that their teens and young adults seem to wallow in and offer these children a chance for turning their lives around in the new year.
A client of mine in his early 20′s recently told me that he really loves his room. It had come to him that he had created a “box of safety” and that he understood that it represented both good things and bad things. On the bad list was that everything and everywhere else that was not his box of safety. We decided to see if we could help him create portable “boxes of safety”out there in the real world
Failing at school. How does one explain how it feels as the parent?
How does one explain how damaging it is to a young person’s self esteem?
There is an epidemic going on right now in the 21st century. With all of our access to the sum total of the knowledge of the world, we remain mired in the muck of the mundane. We are expected to be “on” 18 hours a day and yet the amount of plugged-in young people tuning out and dropping out these days out is staggering.
Being a teenager is about living in the now. This is a double-edged sword.
We spend our whole lives trying to live in the now and give our teens grief for doing it way too much.
The main difference is that we have the experience and they have the conviction.
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