Each person’s life is the culmination of a series of choices. After time, food, water, and land, choices are probably the next most valuable resource. Children often don’t understand this because most don’t get to make many choices. As a result, as children grow older they go through a phase in which they don’t value […]
ESPN published a fairly damning article about sports specialization two days ago. The article is titled ‘These kids are ticking time bombs’: The threat of youth basketball. In summary, the premise of the article is as follows: Those who were highly specialized in one sport (at the exclusion of other sports) and played it year-round […]
Yesterday I shared the #1 verbal clue that shows a child is lacking in resilience. In short, when a child has a pattern of making excuses, then there is a high likelihood that child is lacking resilience. When a child makes an excuse such as “that wasn’t fair” or “they cheated” after a loss, it’s […]