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Serving Others
Less than a week after I turned 16, I was hired to work at a movie theater. The company culture, when I started, was highly coordinated and customer-serving. Nathan from Corporate would come to our particular theater with some regularity, making the four hour trip about once a month. He would drill us on various… Continue reading
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It’s Good To Grow Up
A good parent provides direction and orientation to their children so that they will have a coherent maturation process. All but the best parents seem to not understand this and so they leave things to chance. They assume the public schools will provide the direction. They figure if they just go with the flow, they… Continue reading
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The Intergenerational Importance of Validation
One of the primary things children need is validation. From a parent, this is the stance that what the child has going on is important and worth paying attention to. While every child needs this, it is also just logically true from the parent’s point of view. After all, is it the child who will… Continue reading