Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “Life Skill of the Month”
Perseverance is defined as “persistence in doing something despite difficulty or delay in achieving success.” This skill is important for so many reasons, which is why we use it as our focus for the month of June.Quick update on our summer programming! In one workshop, we focused on perseverance in the same way famous artist Matisse did years ago. Here’s …
This month we’re focusing on “respect” as our July Life Skill. Three-time All American Pole Vaulter, Vera Schmitz, talks about respect and what that has meant in her own life. Vera began talking respecting others from her experiences as a member of a team. She stressed the importance of respecting the group’s energy. At a particularly difficult practice, those who …
This month our workshops focused on building perseverance, a skill many of our children possess without even knowing it. Our goal was to strengthen their awareness of this trait and create projects that build upon the skill. These projects could then serve as an example for their own personal lives. One of our favorite projects from the past month, sewing, …
