Posted on May 19, 2022 by confidentparentsconfidentkids
How does this unique time help us live more authentically? How do we raise kids to deeply know and trust themselves?
Posted on June 14, 2018 by confidentparentsconfidentkids
You might just call me a “poster child” for the topic of parents helping kids find their sense of purpose. My deeply loved but certainly nontraditional career path is a direct result of my parents’ investment in my sense of purpose. And their support of my development occurred at a time coming of age in …
Posted on April 26, 2018 by confidentparentsconfidentkids
Help Your Children Begin to Understand the Important Roles of Work in Your Family’s Life What a delight to work with the NBC Parent Toolkit team on putting together an article and resources for today’s “Take Your Child to Work Day.” Although today marks the nationally-recognized day, any day that makes sense for you and …
Category: Building a Positive Family Environment Tags: #EducationNation, #takeyourchildtoworkday, @ParentToolkit, children and work, Education Nation, Jennifer Miller, NBC Parent Toolkit, role of work in family life, sense of purpose, Take your child to work day, teaching kids about work, teaching kids work ethic, understanding work, work ethic
Posted on January 11, 2018 by confidentparentsconfidentkids
By Guest Writer, Dr. Kendall Cotton Bronk; Associate Professor of Psychology, Claremont Graduate University “Not to brag, but I can make my teen crabby just by saying hello.” As the parent of a pre-teen, I can relate. And judging from the sixty-three comments attached to this Facebook meme a friend posted, so too can a …
Category: Building a Positive Family Environment Tags: #purposechallenge, Adolescent development, Dr. Kendall Cotton Bronk, Greater Good Science Center, Kendall Cotton Bronk, parenting teens, Psychology research on teens, Sense of meaning, sense of purpose, Talking to teens about meaning, Talking to teens about purpose, The Purpose Challenge, Youth meaning, Youth purpose
Posted on January 9, 2018 by confidentparentsconfidentkids
After the hub-bub of the holidays, I find myself craving quiet, the central gift of wintertime. Much of the natural world is in hibernation and the snow muffles the sounds of the city holding them at bay. As I put away holiday decorations and purge old items that can find a better home elsewhere rather …
New Opportunities to Help Our Teens Find Meaning Though the answer to the question, “Who do you want to be when you grow up?” continues to change – and precisely because the answer changes – we ask it throughout childhood. My four-year-old declared he wanted to be Darth Vader. My seven-year-old knew he wanted to …
Category: Building a Positive Family Environment Tags: emerging adults and purpose, Greater Good Science Center, helping children find purpose, helping kids find meaning, inner knowledge, John Templeton Foundation, meaningful life, Prosocial, Purpose, sense of purpose, showing confidence in our kids, teen anxiety, teen depression, teen sense of meaning, teen sense of purpose, trusting our kids
Posted on May 25, 2017 by confidentparentsconfidentkids
There’s Important Work to Be Done… Simply read the news and it becomes obvious — there’s a tremendous amount of work to be done to create a better world. Opportunities to contribute abound. So we, as parents, can not only bring our own energies and talents to solve our problems but we can also learn …
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