Prepared: What Kids Need for a Fulfilled Life

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

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.

What emotions do you have?

But adults so often feel if a kid is struggling, we have to pick them up immediately, and so many debates about our approach with Will ended in a stalemate.

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.

What behaviors are you exhibiting?

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

What do you want from this situation?