Prepared: What Kids Need for a Fulfilled Life

STP process—“identify the status,” “define the target,” and “develop the proposal”—that

the employees of 2020 need: 1) complex problem solving, 2) critical thinking, 3) creativity, 4) people management, 5) coordinating with others, and 6) emotional intelligence. Employers want innovative thinking, independence, initiative.

What emotions do you have?

Getting too involved, by taking over, is a mistake I see parents making constantly, and from personal experience, I get why.

Group work goes wrong in two primary ways. First, most often the task assigned isn’t actually worthy of group work. What groups do well is solve complex problems that benefit from different experience, expertise, skills, and knowledge. Groups aren’t better at completing tasks that are rote or linear, with a single right answer.

We want to avoid nearing the crisis point to begin with because it is so stressful, and so we naturally start putting structures in place to prevent our kids from even coming close to a failure.

Groups who are prepared for the coming storm, and view it as a productive stage to getting to a more aligned, “norming” place, fare better.

What do you want from this situation?

What behaviors are you exhibiting?