


Terry Cullen
May 8, 2024
Worldwide
Categories:
Climate Change, Children, Life Skills, Education, Resilience
Summary: Our children face a different world than we experienced growing up. Climate change is happening, and we cannot predict its outcomes. Human activities are pushing beyond the threshold limits that could create the collapse of natural systems that have sustained human life for thousands of years. Competition in this volatile world increases prospects of war, famine, mass migration, extinction, and massive disruption to established societies, among other things.
How do you prepare children for a volatile world with the potential for so much uncertainty? Asparagus Magazine offers three things we can learn about and teach our children:
1. Skill of perception. Knowing what’s around you and how you can use it. The land has always provided what humans need to sustain and thrive. Likewise, for human systems. Knowing how to work together and perceiving opportunities. Perception is a skill. Understand and hone it with practice.
2. An Attitude of Reciprocity. Taking without reciprocity is damaging and leads us to a self-centered and selfish relationship with the planet that supports our existence. Humanity has demonstrated that Earth cannot support that relationship anymore. You can teach your children differently and practice reciprocity.
3. Resilience as Empowerment. The ability to withstand and recover quickly from difficulties. The ability of a substance or object to spring back into shape. Staying calm and centered in crisis. I am being solution-oriented and maintaining a positive attitude.
These qualities are often taught in leadership circles and are considered vital to emotional intelligence. They are also invaluable skills and attitudes to survive in a fast-changing and potentially deadly world.
Are your children ready for what lies ahead? What will you teach them today?
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