One of the biggest things your students can do to help pave a path to success is to set goals. Not only is it rewarding to accomplish a goal, but it also just feels good to be able to look back and see how much we grew during that time.
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It may be difficult to appreciate how much of a difference good deeds and a life skills education make in individual lives, communities, and our world at large. Those of us familiar with science fiction or philosophy have likely heard of the concept known as “the butterfly effect.” The idea behind the butterfly effect is that even something as seemingly insignificant as the beating of a butterfly’s wings affects events going into the future. A different way of thinking about this concept is that everything affects everything else. All actions and moments matter.
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When I was 13 years old, my mother gave me a small book containing one of her favorite poems, “IF” by Rudyard Kipling. At the end of the poem were the words “man” and “son” – she crossed them out and wrote “woman” and “daughter.” My mother told me to read the poem often and try to live by its words. Almost 40 years later, as she was dying, my mother asked me to give copies of “IF” to all of her grandchildren. I did.
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Tips for parents to teach life skills at home!
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Now that we’ve both been home full-time with our respective children (2 toddlers for Nell and a high schooler, middle schooler, and elementary schooler for Meredith) for four months, it’s become even more clear to us how important it is that parents and other caregivers in children’s lives understand how every moment—every interaction—between a child and someone else is an opportunity for learning.
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