EMAP #7: ASSESS PASSION Are you focused and/or overwhelmed? Step 3 and Summary Activity: Are you on the right track? Prioritize Passion The world is competing for our time, energy and resources. There are messages everywhere telling us what we should want…what we should do…and when…especially when it comes to our kids. In (more…)
EMAP #7: ASSESS PASSION Are you focused and/or overwhelmed? Step 1: Wondering where the time goes? Assess How Your Child Spends Time Sustaining passion requires stepping out of our non-passion oriented culture and creating a culture or way of living that prioritizes time for passion. In Assess Passion, EMAP 7 Step 1, we (more…)
EMAP #6: MONITOR PASSION Are you reading your child as well as your child is reading you? Step 5 and Summary Activity: Think again! Re-Evaluate the Activity or Environment if Necessary What does it mean to express passion? It is possible to confuse passion with the many forms of motivation. In Monitor Passion, (more…)
EMAP #6: MONITOR PASSION Are you reading your child as well as your child is reading you? Steps 3 and 4: Is your child’s passion hot? Monitor Your Child’s Activities and Environment Children are born with the capacity to uncover their own gifts and find their own personal and unique paths if their (more…)
EMAP #6: MONITOR PASSION Are you reading your child as well as your child is reading you? Step 2: Are you self-aware while observing your child Monitor Your Perception Our job is to create environments that help our children find their passions, use their gifts to create, experience their own brilliance and discover (more…)
EMAP #4: PROVIDE THE NEXT STEP Is what you think you can do… do-able? Absolutely! Activity Plan: Broaden Your Child’s Opportunities If it is possible, you can do it. In EMAP 4, Provide the Next Step, we show you what additional activities in your child’s most prominent areas of active interest might look (more…)
EMAP #2: MONITOR INTEREST Is what you think you’re seeing…really happening? Step 4: What are they not doing? Identify Your Child’s Passive Interests 6:50 Hiding in clear view? Almost all passions are concealed in overlooked passive interests. Know the signs and you will see the clues a passive interest leaves to bring you to (more…)
EMAP #2: MONITOR INTEREST Is what you think you’re seeing…really happening? Step 2: Who’s watching the kids? (more…)
EMAP #2: MONITOR INTEREST Is what you think you’re seeing…really happening? Step 1: Reading the signs? Understanding the Definitions How do you know if your busy child is on the path to finding their passion and brilliance—or is just a busy child? In this lively conversation, Resa and Wendy share the distinct behaviors that (more…)
EMAP #1: EXPOSE INTEREST Are your child’s activities doing what they’re supposed to? Step 8 and Summary Activity: Can’t go everywhere at once? Choose Which Activities Are Worth Pursuing and How Now that you have brainstormed a list of activities, possible resources and dependent variables, do you have a plan in there somewhere? Join (more…)