Teens crave independence and should be learning how to solve their own problems. But how can they when parents want to make sure they "get it right"? Learn how to prepare your teens to advocate for...
Although we seem to be convinced from a young age to seek success at all costs, and even to “freak out” at even the possibility of failure, Michael Lindenmayer, in an article in Forbes magazine,...
Have you ever read a story without a conflict? If there were no conflict, there wouldn’t be a story. Yet we do everything we can to avoid conflict in life. Could it be that we are looking at...
From childhood we develop our first identity, our cultural identity. This is the identity that is imposed on us by others. It comes from our families and our life at home and gradually extends to our...
“Coming to know your worth doesn’t just change you. It changes the way you see everyone else because you can see their worth too.” by Portia Louder
Self-Leadership requires that we understand...
Isaiah 11:6
As I was growing up, I remember hearing the saying “before you try cleaning up the world, you better look at your own back door”. This was an era of unsettled times. The Vietnam...
YOU Life Skills and Leadership is committed to teach leadership as a life skill. So why self-leadership and not self-control?
Perhaps I can give an example using my Sharperean Husky. Juno was...
Many of our marginalized students today have been raised with a “You can’t” mentality. From the cradle the people who are most important to them have told them they can’t succeed for reasons...
Accompanied with every obstacle we face in life, is a lesson to be learned. Whether we feel defeated or like a conqueror, all our challenges form us into stronger individuals . It is highly...
“As I was growing up, I was never great at advocating for myself. My experience in foster care instilled the false notion that I was insignificant into my mind; accompanied by loads of childhood...