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I find it a little concerning these days to hear college applicants being urged to include “community service” in their résumés because it enhances their profile. This kind of thinking turns the idea of “giving back” on its head: I should do it because it makes me look good.
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Last week we began discussing the second crucial C that children and adults need to flourish in life – capability. While parents know that children must hit development milestones to graduate to adulthood, we generally find that kids’ progress varies. Some skills come easily while other lessons are harder to learn. But, achievement brings tremendous…..
With connection grounding our sense of who we are, the second crucial C – capability – deals with what we do in our lives.
The acquisition of new abilities is the hallmark of childhood. Parents turn around and their kids are already doing something new. Seeing the smile…..
We humans are social beings. Within the animal kingdom, no offspring require the attention of their parents for a longer time than humans. The presence of positive social interactions among family and friends form a fairly reliable barameter of our psychological health. History as well as the news media…..
As Valentine’s Day approaches with its focus on all the “warm and fuzzy” aspects of romantic love and love in general, I’m moved to tackle what distinguishes our “hearts and flowers” notions about love from what real loving is.
I concluded last week’s post (“God Is a Social…..
When I had my fourth child, I had the good fortune to take a very helpful parenting class offered at my kids’ nursery school. I was so impressed with what I had learned that I studied and then taught parenting classes for the next half dozen years or so.
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