In the post Disidentification with form – Part I I’ve pointed out a fundamental question (that I’m still inquiring) how do we teach out kids to draw their self worth from themselves and not from the world around them, how do we teach them to separate themselves from the results of their action. Eckhart Tolle …
Here’s a link to, what I personally think is a revolutionary concept presented by Prof Carol Dweck. In a nutshell, a Growth mindset, as apposed to Fixed mindset is essential to ever allowing your kid to be in the front of learning – to ever challenge his comfort zone – and constantly expend. By understanding …
The only way a person, whether a grownup or a kid, will adapt an idea or a concept is by choosing to do so, he can’t be forced to it. You can very much furl your brows thinking “Well, that’s obvious…” indeed it is. Yet through the many years I’ve been working with people I …
This post’s title belongs to a TED lecture given by Angela Lee Duckworth bearing the same name: I bet most of you are not really surprised by this title. Any self aware individual knows that without EQ skills no real achievements can be gained and defiantly can not be sustained. Determination is one of these …
One of the key elements in enhancing your kid’s life skills abilities is finding the right balance between pointing out things, articulating and explaining on one hand and maintaining the flow of things on the other. Imagine that you and your kid are having your first spring walk in a field. Beautiful flowers bloom, fruits …
I find Eckhart Tolle’s teaching very inspiriting. Dissolving one’s ego, being in the now, internal freedom, benevolent existence, “as within so without” which are all synonymous to the same ‘thing’ – existence in its purest and most fundamental way. How do you teach your kids that one’s existence is detached from form? That the later …
Many of the parents that seek knowledge about how to acquire their kids with life skills does so because they come from pain. These parents have had an unhappy childhood and the pain that they carry with them is the motivator – often to a degree of a burning desire – to better their kid’s …
The JadeLifeSkills portal is online! And you are so welcome to browse around. The site’s ‘want to be’ is becoming the leading portal on the subject of life skills for kids. The site will be gradually evolving in the next few months – first offering the JadeLifeSkills e-books, then these e-books in their narrated version …