Tag: parenting
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Unintended Transitions
Safe Harbor Pathways was created to explore life transitions. Having experienced many obvious life transitions, including career, family, disability and aging transitions, I am now realizing that transitions occur when they are unintended or when they are unexpected. I am referring to the transitions that we experience within our families as parents become grandparents and…
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The Kitchen Table Discussions
In my last essay, I posited that our kids and grandkids will inherit a chaotic world. As parents and grandparents, we have a responsibility to prepare them for not only surviving and living in a world that is very different from the world in which we were raised, but helping them to become leaders in…
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Kitchen Table Discussions for our Kids and Grandkids- Trust and Servant Leadership
In my previous essay, “Kids and Core Values” (Feb. 23) I presented the challenge facing our children as they grow into adulthood in the coming decades in a chaotic world. I discussed two key core values that they need to understand and implement as guideposts in order to provide sustainable leadership in the world that…