“My aim in homeschooling is to give my children the ability to be an adult learner, a skill set that will last the rest of their lives.” GivingChildrenLastsAbilitySkillsAdultsAimMy ChildrenLearnersHomeschooling Author:Nancy Pearcey
“All great art originates from the innocent child within us expressing itself through the wisdom, experience and skill of an adult.” ChildrenArtSkillsAdultsInnocentInnocenceGreat ArtInnocent ChildrenWisdom Experience Author:Richard Schmid
“My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs - in other words, offer an adult education in social and emotional intelligence.” SocialEmotionalOffersSkillsTrainingAdultsProgramOrganizationIncludingInjusticeRangeEmotional IntelligenceAdult EducationTraining ProgramsSocial Intelligence Author:Daniel Goleman
“Some children naturally have more cognitive control than others, and in all kids this essential skill is being compromised by the usual suspects: smartphones, TV, etc. But there are many ways that adults can help kids learn better cognitive control.” WayChildrenHelpingKidsTvsSkillsEssentialsAdultsEtcSuspectsUsualCognitiveSmartphones Author:Daniel Goleman
“Although adults have a role to play in teaching social skills to children, it is often best that they play it unobtrusively. In particular, adults must guard against embarrassing unskilled children by correcting them too publicly and against labeling children as shy in ways that may lead the children to see themselves in just that way.” WayMayChildrenPlaySocialRolesTeachingParticularSkillsAdultsShyEmbarrassingCorrectingLabelingSocial Skills Author:Zick Rubin
“Children, then, acquire social skills not so much from adults as from their interactions with one another. They are likely to discover through trial and error which strategies work and which do not, and later to reflect consciously on what they have learned.” ChildrenSocialSkillsAdultsStrategyErrorsTrialsAcquireInteractionTrial And ErrorSocial Skills Author:Zick Rubin
“Your children should have it impressed upon them that their adult life-style will bear very little resemblance to yours and that they should now be acquiring knowledge, skills, values, and tastes that will sustain them in less materially affluent circumstances. On the other hand, the fresh insights and imaginations of your children may help you find a viable future while there's still time.” ShouldMayChildrenLittlesStillsHelpingHandsValuesImaginationStyleBearsCircumstancesTasteSkillsAdultsShould HaveOur ChildrenEnvironmentalInsightYour ChildrenSustainabilityImpressedResemblanceAffluentLife StyleAcquiring Knowledge Author:Paul R. Ehrlich
“I think you couldn't do this role or you couldn't be Frankie Valli himself unless you had a natural falsetto. And I had sort of discovered it by accident as a child or a young adult when you realize you have a special skill that you don't really have any use for you, and you just take it out at parties or to amuse your friends or to annoy your girlfriends.” ThinkingChildrenUseYoungRealizingNaturalPartyRolesSpecialSkillsAdultsYoung AdultAccidentsGirlfriendAnnoyingYour GirlfriendFalsetto Author:John Lloyd Young
“My students - all adults - bring a lot of writing skill to the first class, and they and I get better as the class progresses.” WritingFirstsClassProgressStudentsSkillsAdultsGet BetterFirst ClassWriting Skills Author:James Thayer
“In our childhoods we either get all the social and emotional and ethical skills we need to be well adjusted adults, or we don't. Some of us don't know how to tell someone we like them. A lot of us get depressed and get wasted. Why don't we do something that makes us feel better? Because we don't know any other way. When I didn't have enough skills I compensated with drugs and alcohol. It's like there was a hole in the wall and I put a poster over it.” KnowsWayNeedsFeelsWellsEnoughSocialKnow HowChildhoodEmotionalWallDrugSkillsAdultsOur ChildrenAlcoholHolesOver ItEthicalFeel BetterPostersDrugs And Alcohol Author:Bucky Sinister
“He's treating her like she's fourteen and he's a normal adult, acting like he's taken her under his wing. Like he needs her detecting skills, same as Barrons did to Mac, and she's falling for it, same as Mac. He's lining up his dominoes, so they fall more easily when he feels like pushing them over, conserving energy so he doesn't have to hunt her when he's ready to kill her.” NeedsFeelsFallEnergyActingTakenReadySkillsNormalAdultsWingsPushingHuntsFourteenMacsConservingLining Up Book:Iced: Fever Series Source: Iced: Fever Series