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12 05, 2022

Happy Travels!!

By |2022-05-12T13:15:36-06:00May 12th, 2022|Family Culture, Letters|

Since we’re soon amidst the travel season, we thought it’d be appropriate to talk about traveling with children. This week is about planes, trains and automobiles and thoughts on making travel a pleasure for everyone. Yes, parents love their kids, but those rose-tinted glasses get a good cleaning when kids suffer the gauntlet of uncomfortable seating, long waits, time changes, strange food, disrupted sleep schedules, and stressed parents. Strangers will give your parenting ability the [...]

30 04, 2022

The Hinge Perspective

By |2022-04-30T12:08:28-06:00April 30th, 2022|Family Culture, Letters, Personal|

In every life there is a transition from the essence of youth into the experience of adulthood. Often within this transition is an episode that stands out as a hinge point of meaningful experience, which is designated as “the event” that dislodges one’s understanding from the rock of ignorance. These hinge point experiences are retold as testimonies. As authors of these weekly letters to you, we continually confront the question as to what is valuable, [...]

18 04, 2022

Character Training: The Virtue of Learning from Mistakes

By |2022-04-18T18:27:30-06:00April 18th, 2022|Family Culture, Letters, Parenting|

Children make mistakes. Just like when a toddler learns to walk, by leaning too far one direction then too far another, they learn balance. It’s during those countless “mistakes” of not getting balance exactly right that they learn to balance. A child has getting up and falling down experiences that supply a massive amount of information about gravity and strength. Then back and forth with use of hips and toes. Then staggering and eventually running. [...]

8 04, 2022

Entrenamiento del carácter: la virtud de la reconciliación

By |2022-04-08T12:09:20-06:00April 8th, 2022|Español|

Cada uno de nosotros ha estado en el extremo receptor de ser agraviado, herido, golpeado y magullado física, emocional y psicológicamente. Por desgracia, hemos estado demasiadas veces en el extremo de causar daño u ofensa de alguna manera, grande o pequeña, por accidente o a propósito, dañando así una relación. Esa es la forma de hacerlo: la vida no nos permite progresar mucho sin reconciliarnos cuando causamos una ruptura dentro de nuestra familia, nuestros amigos, [...]

3 04, 2022

Character Training: The Virtue of Reconciliation

By |2022-04-05T09:47:54-06:00April 3rd, 2022|Letters, Parenting, Personal, Relationship|

Every one of us has been on the receiving end of being wronged, injured, bumped and bruised physically, emotionally, and psychologically. Alas, we have all too many times been on the giving end of causing harm or offense in some way, large or small, by accident or on purpose, thereby injuring a relationship. That’s just the way of it – Life doesn’t allow us to progress very far without reconciling when we cause a break [...]

24 03, 2022

Crianza de un minuto

By |2022-03-24T11:48:46-06:00March 24th, 2022|Español|

"Puedes hacer cualquier cosa durante 1 minuto" no es solo una frase fácil para el aliento de los padres, es un ladrillo en la base de la vida de un niño. No es mucho después de que los bebés se convierten en niños pequeños que los padres deben comenzar el largo proceso de construcción del carácter a través de la autodisciplina. Cada época en la infancia presentará nuevas oportunidades para que los padres desarrollen en [...]

21 03, 2022

One Minute Parenting

By |2022-03-22T19:08:17-06:00March 21st, 2022|Letters, Parenting|

“You can do anything for 1 minute” is not just an easy phrase for parental encouragement, it’s a brick in the foundation of a child’s life. It isn’t long after babies become toddlers that parents should begin the long process of building character through self-discipline. Every era in childhood will present new opportunities for parents to develop in their children the ability to face the arduous ability of sticking with a task and persevering through [...]

24 02, 2022

Dando rienda suelta a la pasión de su familia

By |2022-02-22T16:54:56-07:00February 24th, 2022|Español|

Hay mil cosas para ocupar su tiempo: responsabilidades en el trabajo, correos electrónicos, organizar y pagar las facturas, la abundancia del mantenimiento de la vida como cocinar y lavar la ropa, cortar el césped y sacar la basura, eventos escolares, eventos deportivos y reuniones sociales interminables para niños, y luego agregar su propia socialización y tiempo para relajarse frente a una película de Netflix. ¿Por qué tomarías los pocos momentos preciosos no programados que quedan [...]

20 02, 2022

Unleashing Your Family’s Passion

By |2022-02-24T13:51:05-07:00February 20th, 2022|Family Culture, Letters, Parenting|

There are a thousand things to take up one’s time: Responsibilities at work, emails, organizing and paying the bills, the abundance of life’s maintenance like cooking and laundry, mowing the lawn and taking out the trash, school events, sports events, and unending child socials, and then throw in your own socializing and time to just relax in front of a Netflix movie. Why would you take what few precious unscheduled moments that remain and volunteer [...]

10 02, 2022

Entrenamiento del carácter: la virtud de la limpieza

By |2022-02-09T20:37:03-07:00February 10th, 2022|Español|

Ok, si fuera yo leyendo esto a mis 30 años, probablemente no leería ningún tema tan mundano como la limpieza. Pero, ahora que he puesto unas pocas millas debajo de los neumáticos, esta habilidad fundamental de la vida contiene mucho más de lo que hubiera pensado. Hay más aquí de lo que supondrías. Ustedes, los padres, están en marcha con la mayor empresa posible: estructurar una vida a partir de la cual su hijo llegará [...]

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