Mindset & School

As we begin our first week of school, I’d like too set an intention for the energy potential of our kids and our future.

If tomorrow becomes never, then we have to talk about today. Today, 60% of our kids are depressed.

Respecting our kids, their time AND their potential isn’t something we talk about. What about their in born ability and responsibility to hold themselves accountable for their own happiness.

It’s an act of love to expect clarity from them.

Can we even define our collective standard? Do we have one? Is it fair to?

We’re showcasing this epidemic of sadness like a badge of courage. We’re standardizing unhappiness and we’re normalizing depression. We create space and set the stage for the shoe to drop. I understand that we’re simply trying to be inclusive, sensitive and supportive but It’s not helping.

We avoid discomfort and pain at all cost and unfortunately, in doing so, we stifle growth. We imply that adversity is abnormal and that failure could be avoidable.

We’re teaching our kids to be afraid of strangers, afraid of germs, afraid to walk down the street, afraid

Failure isn’t an option and because of our emotional fragility, we learn to reject discomfort and grit because suffering is uncomfortable and with discomfort, we risk asking ourselves the big questions.

The big questions being asked among our teens include “why am I so sad,

The perfect garden grows no outliers, it only allows and showboats the well groomed beauties who stayed in line with the standardized expectations.

How do you want to live?

Who do you want to be?

If you don’t like where you are or how you feel, what do you need to change…instead of normalizing all of it.

No wonder so many parents want to homeschool. I identify with their frustration. I also, however also can’t help but wonder who’s left if we all jump ship.

We create visioners.

We teach them to fall in love with life.

We teach them to fall in love with life by letting them experience all of it. We teach them that perspective is subjective and fluid and It’s fluid and if it’s not intentional