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What is School For?

Schools Kill Creativity

Below are a couple of videos that really inspired me a few years ago. In them Sir Ken Robinson argues that school kills creativity. In an industrialized society we strive for fitting in and getting “the” right answer. But as he waxes eloquently, that’s not what schools should be doing.

For me it has become very provocative to think of education reform in the sense of creative destruction and getting to the core of helping kids really achieve their potential. I believe that “education reform” will actually come from a grass roots effort. It will come from unlikely sources, much like the technology that fuels it.

It will come from parents, and creative employers and entrepreneurs and the kids themselves. In many cases the kids themselves will be the entrepreneurs who force the change.

Make no mistake change is coming…

And all the political crap will continue to produce nothing, except very expensive…

If your interested, and I mean interested like vested in the future, then you may also get a great deal of value from Seth Godin’s new manifesto Stop Stealing Dreams (what is school for?). In it he sets a slightly different tone for us to listen for in the winds of change. He is a marketer that I have followed for years and his forecast on media and trends like education reform have been “dead on.”

You can read this new book for free just click here.

If you are more interested learning about education reform in an audio visual way you have the following videos that I highly recommend.

2010 Sir Ken Robinson

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Success Assets for Children to Tap Their High Potential

When you think about it you are the sculptor, shaping your child’s life. You are Picasso painting the picture of your child’s future. We are the general-designers of our children’s outcomes. Ultimately they will paint their own canvas. However, we need to provide the brushes, paints and possibly help them understand their subject matter. We give them skills to shape and mold their outcomes and the colors for their attitudes and responses.

I’ve found that it helps to know yourself well before attempting to help someone else, including our children. One of the keys to knowing yourself and motivating your kids is to have a well thought-out destination. In other words, what outcome are you after? What do you want to accomplish? What do you want your kids to do? Do they have the tools and understand what is expected of them? If they have the tools and understand what is expected of them, do they have a reason for not doing what’s expected of them? Can you think of more compelling reasons and motivations for them to fulfill their expectations and responsibilities?

After the launch of my program “How To Motivate Your Kids – A Three Step System For Parents” A friend suggested it would be a good idea to re-post the video series on “Success Assets” for everyone to see. Unfortunately the comments from the original posting are not connected any longer. These 3 videos give you an idea of my personal motivation for doing this and a system I have helped other use over the past few years.

Click in the screen to see the first video (5 min aprox) in the Success Assets series

Click in the play button to see the second video (13 min aprox) in the Success Assets series

Click the play button to see the third and final video of the Success Assets series. In this video I mention Infantizum, if your interested here is the definition.

We all want the best for our children and we want them to have every opportunity to shine. The Success Assets are for parents who want their kids to tap into their highest potential.

Obviously the dates are no longer valid but if your interested in the course or program you can email me directly at James.Nichol@BestChild.org

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Would You Trade A Year of Your Life to Lose 20 Pounds?

It’s fast approaching the time when most people start to abandon their New Year’s Resolutions. The average person reported having repeated the same New Year’s resolution 10 years in a row without achieving their goal. The average person only makes it 15 days into their resolution before something stops them. Primarily, we know what we want; we know technically how to do it but we’re spinning the hamster wheel, never getting anywhere.

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Successful Children Can Teach Successful Parenting

This podcast is an exciting one that most people will find counter intuitive as well as enlightening and liberating… because the subject matter will free you from some of the most stressful misconceptions we have today… I won’t spoil the secret… but I will tell you that you are so much closer to your goals [...]

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Building a Better Brain at 5 Years Old

Increasing Cognitive Abilities We all know how fast kids grow up. Before you know it a new born infant is crawling, feeding them self, talking and walking – POOF – it’s their first birthday. …next thing you know they’re growing out of their first school clothes and won’t let you hug them in public anymore… [...]

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Kids Succeed When…

An internal asset most people don’t think much about today is the ability to delay gratification or self-discipline. If you look at the subject matter of most parenting books you’ll find it is about some form of loving discipline – coming from an external source the parent. Delayed gratification is fueled by internal motivation. The question is how do we teach it?

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Genius Kids Were Taught One Key Thing

Genius kids were taught one key thing a common personal asset taught to them by their parents. After researching over 120 of the world’s greatest achievers one common thing the children received from their parents and it wasn’t genetic gifts either. And I’ll show you what that common thread is right here in this post and video. These mothers couldn’t have been more different or come from more dissimilar backgrounds, but the things they did share were interesting: firmness, constantly learning, relatively relaxed and stress free even under bad circumstances and a deep caring for their child’s future.

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Infantizum

My definition of infantizum – The cultural state of impeding adult thinking by sequestering children from their own explorations

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Top 10 Things I Want For Father’s Day

All I want for Father’s Day is in this list of my Top 10

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Happy Father’s Day, Lucky!

Joel is my dad’s best friend and as we grew up he would stay with our family and you just knew he was the happiest guy on earth. But I didn’t know what he was going through, I didn’t know why he would say to my dad, “Happy Father’s Day, Lucky!” For a long time I thought it was a sarcastic joke, like he took type of pity on my dad for being tied down with us. Now I have come to understand just how lucky he really though my dad was. Father’s Day is really every day.

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