How Can Parents Raise Children To Become Responsible Citizens? Academic success is important, but what can well-educated students accomplish if they do not have a strong character, good values, and…
Improve Your Effectiveness Without Increasing Your Knowledge An airline pilot and copilot begin the process of warming up the large aircraft in which they will shortly take off. The pilot…
Soccer. Piano lessons. Dance classes. Boy Scouts. The school play. The vast majority of parents agree that these after-school activities enrich their children’s lives, but recent research shows that the…
The Importance of Grit (And How to Teach Grit to Kids) In recent years, University of Pennsylvania social psychologist Andrea Duckworth has been studying grit: a character trait defined by…
If you were to ask any group of people who influenced them the most during their formative school years, you would probably hear a common theme among the list of…
In 1984 and 1985 I was a squad member on the football at Southeast Missouri State University. Had it not been for a debilitating injury and the fact that…
The Link Between Student Nutrition And Student Achievement: We all understand that eating right is an important aspect of keeping our children physically healthy, but many parents do not know…
The sun was beating down on me as I fought to reel in a five-foot barracuda. My boys, ages eleven and nine were offering words of encouragement as the seesaw…