EMAP #6: MONITOR PASSION    Are you reading your child as well as your child is reading you? Overview:     Passion takes monitoring and really getting to know your child in ways perhaps you have never seen before. There are four important strategies for helping your child.  They involve monitoring your child during their (more…)

EMAP #5: EXPOSE PASSION    Are you digging a hole or broadening your child’s experiences? Steps 7 and Summary Activity:  Need more strategies? Identify How to Fuel Your child’s Activities and Passions   We have endlessly confused goals with strategies. A goal is what we aim for; a strategy is what we do to get (more…)

EMAP #5: EXPOSE PASSION    Are you digging a hole or broadening your child’s experiences? Steps 5 and 6:  Found my direction, now what? Broaden Activities Within a Theme and Prioritize!   Even the most exciting activity and passion can become boring if exposed to constant repetition without an infusion of new life. In Expose (more…)

EMAP #5: EXPOSE PASSION    Are you digging a hole or broadening your child’s experiences? Steps 1 through 4:  Know what’s possible? Identify Themes   The 21st Century brings with it rapid and unpredictable change. We have yet to imagine the possibilities to come. We can best prepare our children for this future by helping (more…)

EMAP #3: ASSESS INTEREST    Is what you’ve learned, something you can use?  Options! Option 4: Slow it down! Redirect Misdirected Interests   A Misdirected Interest looks like an active interest, but is addictive and not to your child’s best interest; it must be redirected to a positive active interest. In Assess Interest, EMAP 3 (more…)

EMAP #3: ASSESS INTEREST    Is what you’ve learned, something you can use?  Options! Option 3: Shifting your direction! Eliminate False Interests   Paradigms are changeable. When we examine and change the parts of our paradigm that no longer serve us, new possibilities emerge. Previously hidden paths present themselves along with an opportunity to shift (more…)

EMAP #3: ASSESS INTEREST    Is what you’ve learned, something you can use?  Options! Option 2: It’s not busy work! Move Passive Interests Forward   To develop passive interests  address:  value, create supportive environment, and provide variety.  It is important to develop our children’s passive interests so our children can be all that they are. (more…)

EMAP #3: ASSESS INTEREST    Is what you’ve learned, something you can use?  Options! Option 1: So you think you’re busy now? Develop Active Interests   An active interest will lead your child to their passion. In Assess Interest, EMAP 3 Option 1, we show you how to create a list of action items to (more…)

EMAP #2: MONITOR INTEREST Is what you think you’re seeing…really happening? Step 6 and Summary Activity: They’re doing WHAT? Identify Your Child’s Misdirected Interests   Not all interests affect your child in a positive manner; learn why.  A misdirected interest looks like passion, but is addictive and needs to be redirected to a positive active (more…)

EMAP #2: MONITOR INTEREST Is what you think you’re seeing…really happening? Step 5: How do I get them OUT of THIS? Identify Your Child’s False Interests   What are the activities your child claims to love but might actually be a false interest? A false interest is not benign or harmless. It is important to (more…)