Meaningful Resources for a Meaningful Life
Guiding You to Coach Your Kids Confidently to Adulthood
Every Kid Needs These Relationships
It’s no secret that human beings are relational creatures. But as loneliness is on the rise and sits at the epicenter of a mental health crisis; still not enough attention is paid to the importance of...
Every Kid Needs This Mental Health Skill — Grieving
Loss is an inevitable part of life. Sometimes it comes in the form of acute pain—like the loss of a loved one, a natural disaster, or an accident. Other times it can come through losing something you ...
Every Kid Needs a Struggle
When I was little, I was diagnosed with a type of learning disability—a language processing issue that made it difficult to recall words to use when I spoke. Generally, it manifested itself when I was...
The Essential Experiences Every Kid Needs
One of the most formative experiences of my life was studying abroad during my Junior year in college. There was a girl I was in love with who merely mentioned the idea of taking a class in Italy, so ...
Kids Must Have Good Friends
One of the great joys of my life is a guy named Nic. We met in drama class during our freshman year in high school and became instantly inseparable. Partially, it was due to our bizarre mutual bent to...
Telling Kids About Our Failures
 “Whoever tells the best story wins.” - John Quincy Adams
Anyone who’s been around a teenager for a significant amount of time understands how challenging it can be to connect with them, especially i...
Teaching a Growth Mindset to Kids
When I was little, baseball was my singular passion. I even lobbied my parents to officially change my name to Steve, after my favorite baseball player Steve Sax. (They declined). I still have thousan...
Every kid needs to know why they matter
Having a teenager in the house (or a group of them in a classroom) inevitably means conflict and tension. Frankly, they’re annoying. They’re desperate to carve their own path, do things for themselves...
Handing over the keys to a kid's future
Winston Churchill said, "The farther back you look, the further ahead you can see."
Most teens don't see very far into the future, though. How could they? They have much more pressing issues in the h...
Psychological Safety—Creating An Accepting Environment
 One of the best parts of the television show, The Office (US version), is the ridiculously colorful characters. They all work for a paper company in Scranton, but after that, they have nothing in com...