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		<title>Your Child Needs Your Wisdom&#8211;Share It!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2025 16:05:36 +0000</pubDate>
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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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		<title>It&#8217;s Amazing What Your Child Has to Learn.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Oct 2023 16:25:48 +0000</pubDate>
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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>Talks: The Window of Opportunity for Wisdom</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2022 19:56:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I had the chance to interact with a niece recently, a high school freshman I hadn&#8217;t seen in a while. These encounters are rare, since both of us have busy lives and she lives 50 miles away. So I couldn&#8217;t help myself. I had to take the opportunity to gift her with some coaching. &#8220;How [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jan 2020 18:38:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve lived long enough to be aware of the sometimes remarkable paths that lives take. When I was a West Point cadet, my activities and achievements were quite a bit different from my high school experience. I know the same was true of my classmates. For example, a good friend of mine, one of my [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Adolescence &#8211; A Time for Skill-Building for the Big League Game of Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Aug 2019 15:32:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a quote worth reading and thinking about, from Frank Martin, head coach of the South Carolina men&#8217;s basketball team: &#8220;You know what makes me sick to my stomach? When I hear grown people say that kids have changed. Kids haven&#8217;t changed. Kids don&#8217;t know anything about anything. We&#8217;ve changed as adults. We demand less [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Teen Nutrition &#8211; Healthy Choices Start at Home</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dennis Coates]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2018 18:58:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This guest post comes from Paige Johnson, who advises on weightlifting and strength training. . . . . . . . The nutrition habits your teens develop now will impact their future health. Here are a few quick tips for instilling the values of a healthy body and mind. Let them have a hand in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Why Teens Are Vulnerable to Peer Pressure</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Sep 2017 19:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What is self-esteem, anyway? Why is it important to a growing child? Why does it turn out to be a tough issue? What can parents do to nurture stronger self-esteem? Physically, I was a late-bloomer. When I was a freshman in high school, I was the shortest boy in my class. As a consequence, even [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 May 2017 18:35:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I’ve been researching, studying, and writing about parenting for several years now, and the other day I was taken by surprise by something new. Adulting I had never heard the term before. I discovered that it’s used by young adults to mean learning to do things adults need to do to manage their lives, life [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How Swimming Makes Kids Smarter</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dennis Coates]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2016 20:53:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Kids learn better when movement and exercise are a part of their day. This guest post comes to us from Lizzy Bullock, writer and swim instructor for AquaGear. Children in a school setting are often told to &#8220;stop fidgeting,&#8221; to &#8220;sit still,&#8221; and to &#8220;stay seated.&#8221; But recent research suggests that encouraging kids to stifle [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Are Young People Preparing for the Realities of Adult Life?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dennis Coates]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2015 08:35:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Studying well in school is important. Those 12 years &#8211; and university &#8211; are important. But along the way, a young person needs to learn many non-academic skills and strengths that are vital for relationships and a career. While some of this can be acquired from school programs, by and large they aren&#8217;t the main focus of a formal education. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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