The Tibetan Fair, one of the great musical/cultural/spiritual events of the year, was just starting up on a beautiful spring day at Live Oak Park in Berkeley, California. As Matt approached he could feel the rhythms reshaping him. His pace slowed, and he finally stopped ten feet from the Tibetan welcome table piled high with […]
When Margaret was having trouble with one of her second graders she discovered a technique that helped her turn power struggles into lessons in emotional intelligence. The liberating line was: “You are a comedian, aren’t you?” The same technique worked like magic with her eight-month-old son, Musa. She told me this story: Technorati Tags: Anger, […]
What Does it Mean to have High Expectations for Children? All the research shows (what our intuition knows) that children rise to our expectations of them. The work of Carol Dweck reinforces this wisdom. Technorati Tags: Authority, building character, character, child-rearing, children, Discipline, education, Genius, kids, Learning, Learning community, overparenting, Parenting, parenting skills, parents, respect, […]
One day, Suzanne said to her five-year-old niece Emma, “My that is a beautiful stuffed lion you have there.” “I know, I saw it in the store and Mommy bought it for me.” “That’s nice.” “Yes. Well, she wasn’t going to.” “Oh?” “No. She wasn’t going to,” she said. “So I went,” and screwing up […]
