Place.Inspiring Caribbean families to examine how the home environment can help their children do well, and to improve their home environment to help their children thrive
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Our Place Goal: (Change) Inspire adults to create places where children can thrive
Raising children is difficult; very difficult. It requires a lot of time, effort, and commitment. It is perhaps the most difficult, most important, and most rewarding thing that you will ever do. There are many challenges that you will face. Perhaps you are facing them already. Things have changed a lot over the years. We are living in a different time and age, and for many of us, in a different country. We need new skills to face these new challenges.
I believe that through personal experience and training, I can help. My aim is to help you organize your home into a place where your children can better thrive as healthy individuals. Where they have even greater opportunity to fulfill their potential. Specifically, I want to help you create places that help your children become more compassionate, resilient, empowered, driven, intelligent, and triumphant. I provide a way which I believe can help you to do so. The other 3 Rs. This is three-step strategy that involves reflecting, reorganizing, and reaching.
I believe that through personal experience and training, I can help. My aim is to help you organize your home into a place where your children can better thrive as healthy individuals. Where they have even greater opportunity to fulfill their potential. Specifically, I want to help you create places that help your children become more compassionate, resilient, empowered, driven, intelligent, and triumphant. I provide a way which I believe can help you to do so. The other 3 Rs. This is three-step strategy that involves reflecting, reorganizing, and reaching.
REFLECTING
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The first step is reflecting, where you have the opportunity to learn about: a) How children grow and develop b) Children's behavior reflects their stage of development c) Children's behavior reflects aspects of brain functioning d) Children's behavior reflects their environment e) Changing the environment to change behavior |
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REORGANIZING
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The second step is reorganizing, where you have the opportunity to: a) Why the home is important Think about how you can improve your home to benefit your children b) Looking at relationships in the home Examine the need to change or improve relationships in your home to help your children function better c) Who and what are in the home Develop plans to reorganize your home and improve interpersonal relationships d) The home, the school, the community |
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REACHING
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The Third step is reaching, where you also have the opportunity to: a) Begin to put into place the changes in your plan and to check their impact b) Use effective strategies to improve relationships among people living in your home, and those visiting your home c) Figure out ways to use resources in your neighborhood to help your children do well |
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Both researchers and employers agree that happiness and success depends more on who a person is, than on what a person knows. Both are very important. Character reveals who a person is: for example, the ability to get along well with others; to respect and care about others; to set a goal and work towards it; to keep going when things get difficult; to collaborate with others to identify and solve problems. Character is supported by positive self-identity and an appreciation of the knowledge, skills, and abilities that you have to contribute. Strong character helps to build high intelligence. The ideal combination is have both. This is a task that we work on throughout our lives. Here we want to help you to help your children get a head-start. (Link to Self-discovery Superpower)
Competence
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Compassion is the ability to have sympathy for others, and to show kindness and consideration. Showing compassion helps to build good relationships, which is the foundation for personal and professional success.
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Resilience and Resourcefulness |
Resilience is the ability to bounce back from disappointments, failures, and damaging events. It is the ability to keep going in difficult circumstances. Resilience is important for good self-management and for achieving any goal.
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Empathy |
Empowerment is having the freedom and confidence to make your own way in the world; to make decisions and take actions that would get you to your goal.
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Self-management |
Drive is the desire and determination to achieve a goal. It is the energy and the effort put into accomplishing that goal. Drive is strongest when you find your purpose in life and you have a passion for pursuing it.
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Trustworthiness
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Intelligence is the ability to gather and remember information, and to learn from experience. It is the capacity to think, reflect, and imagine. Intelligence is the ability to identify and solve problems, and adjust to
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