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This is one of five daily posts i write. Today’s other four posts are hiding something.
The issues and challenges that occur daily, endlessly.
Teaching a 14-year old to wire his brain to make every problem an opportunity or a challenge. And that bad things happen to everyone, all the time.
Our only chance of thriving is to fight like hell.
To get and stay in fighting shape: mentally, physically, spiritually, career-wise, and at our home base.
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(photo: We wake up one day and if we’re very lucky, we’ll be happy with our everyday blessings – the ones we’ve spent our life enjoying but maybe took for granted)
Who taught you about personal responsibility when you where young?
And what are you passing on to the school-aged children in your life?
Teaching the upside of being done ahead of deadlines doesn’t happen until afterwards, say the first day or first week of school.
There are many adults who never tasted this enough to make it their default menu – ahead of time.
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When we were done with his lesson, the learning could have stopped. But Walt Disney taught me to always try to give a little more than anyone expects. So in a brief story (Walt Disney’s teaching tool of choice) I explained to our son I wished I had been taught earlier in life how to use my own words – to not doubt that my explanation would be as good as anyone else’s.
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Last weekend I began to teach our son:
We have a campfire pit in our yard and this is the time of year for using it. We burned enough yard and tree trimmings to make an excellent cooking fire.
He was hesitant to strike the match. Perhaps even afraid. He’s nine.
As a Father, it seems intuitive to be the one to teach him certain things that will be taught by others, if I don’t beat them to it.
Striking a match is just the beginning. Ya with me?