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					<description><![CDATA[When I’m with someone, a friend or family member, or even a stranger, I try to imagine what their experience of being alive in the world is like, based on their situation, experience, values, knowledge, skills, etc. I even do this with our cats. It’s my way of exercising empathy. Doing this exercise with a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Even though I graduated from West Point, served 20 years in the U.S. Army, and retired as a lieutenant colonel, from age 16 I&#8217;ve always considered myself to be a writer. And since I co-founded what has become Grow Strong Leaders in 1987, I&#8217;ve published over a dozen books and several hundred articles. Ten years [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Recently, a bizarre death was reported in most news outlets. A 14-year old boy fell in love with an AI image. This computer-generated image became so real to him that he saw her as a real person. Ultimately, he killed himself with his father&#8217;s pistol in order to &#8220;be with her.&#8221; The story is so [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Being a parent means doing hard things on a regular basis. In other words, raising a child to be a happy, successful, independent adult will require you to engage many aspects of character strength. Likewise, to succeed in life as an adult, a child will also have to gain character strength. In a previous article, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2024 21:59:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I remember an incident in which my two sons were playing together outside. One got mad at the other and it came to blows. In retrospect, I understand that a contributing factor was their underdeveloped ability to exercise empathy. That was then, over 40 years ago. Today, both are happy in their second marriages and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been a Dad to over a dozen cats in my adult life. The cat in the photo is Cookie, one of the three cats in my family right now. All three display signs of intelligence. I see this in the way they make decisions. For example, at a certain time each afternoon, Cookie will [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[At about the age of 12, plus or minus, a child&#8217;s body and brain are flooded with growth hormones to begin the physical development needed to become an adult. The growth period lasts about ten years. We call it adolescence. During this gradual transformation, the child becomes a different person. They may not even be [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Growing up to be a happy, successful, independent adult means creating a self. This includes life skills, relationship skills, thinking skills, learning skills, character strength, values, attitudes, and more. it&#8217;s a lot, and every child has to do it. Some leave home ready to deal with life, and others&#8230; My own parents were kind and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Heman Bekele is a 14-year-old boy who won First Prize in 3M&#8217;s Young Scientist&#8217;s Challenge for working to create an affordable soap that could treat skin cancer. Read more about him here&#8230; As a young man, he wasn&#8217;t focused on being popular. He wasn&#8217;t on social media trying to get dozens of &#8220;likes.&#8221; Instead, he [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Teens Who Take Their Future Seriously Have a Huge Advantage While Growing Up</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[An obvious fact: very young children don&#8217;t understand about the future. If they&#8217;re 6 years old, they simply can&#8217;t conceive of the fact that in a few years they will be in high school. This inability to comprehend their own desired or possible future extends into adolescence. And if they don&#8217;t exercise future-thinking as a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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