Prepared: What Kids Need for a Fulfilled Life

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.

Those five behaviors are strategy-shifting, challenge-seeking, persistence, responding to setbacks, and appropriate help-seeking.

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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.

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.

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

If someone gave a “thumbs-down,” that was their right, but then they would also have to make a suggestion to make the proposal better.

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?