Getting Schooled: Elementary and high school experience started with the kindergarten teacher being my mom. School was about playing, socializing and having fun. High school was about cat and mouse games of staying out of trouble and being terribly bored. My junior year was skipping 2 days a week, showing up for test and otherwiseContinue reading “Education Part 1 of 3”
Category Archives: Parenting and Education
Parenting Part 4 of 5
The overall task is emancipation. That is to learn to make it on their own. To learn how to fly out of the nest. The challenge is several folds. First, they won’t listen to parents. Second, they want to do it themselves. Third, they think they know what to do and that it just magically happens.
Parenting Part 3 of 5
The second seven-year period from ages 7 to 14 years is where the child develops a sense of group norms and expectations, i.e., normalization and socialization with the world. This is where they learn how to interact and socialize with their peers and the world. The important reference is their peers, the group of kids that they interact with. Parents, be attentive to and guide your child in respect to their peers. And in what environment and activities they are involved in.
Parenting Part 2 of 5
The first 7-10 years is where the child gets the core sense of themselves, the world and future. Essentially they are learning the operating and processing system. Or laying down the fundamental neuropathways of their experience.
Parenting Part 1 of 5
Knowing what a child goes through, you can gracefully help your child learn how to love, change and grow. This parenting series provides and outlines an intuitive framework, strategy and process to help you raise happy, confident and competent children as they become young adults.
The Gift of Empathic Witness (MH2)
Listening to the client is one of the most obvious things to do. And yet one of the most over-looked and under-appreciated. Basically, the client is telling you what they need help with.
Connections
We are threshold where the power of the ego has matured to its sovereignty. But also recognizes that the itself, the ego does not operate without interdependent connection. Individuals realize that they have the ability and responsibility to choose but they also must consider that they only exist meaningfully; in relationship or connection, i.e., existentialism. It is the connection with their environment, whether is physically, energetically, socially, emotionally, intellectually, spiritually, etc. It is the embedded interdependent connection that provides meaning and purpose to the experience of existence.
Search For Connection
Search for Connection One of the basic drives in the human condition is connection. The search for connection is the human experience. The spark at the moment of conception; sperm and the egg connect and a new life is created. In the womb, the connection is the oceanic experience with the mother. When anContinue reading “Search For Connection”
Parenting, Part 5 of 5
The grit stage is about BEING emancipated. During the previous teenage stage, the task was learning to become emancipated. However, this is the stage where the young adult handles their actions, making and grabbing a hold of opportunities. It is the stage where a person is required to COMMIT to themselves, their passion and their path.
Elegant Metaphor of Gardening
Gardening is an elegant metaphor. It is established, intuitive and is a universal archetype complete with representative concepts, processes and vocabulary.