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Social Intelligence and the Film The Avengers, by Dr. Brad Schwall

I attended a press screening for the film The Avengers which opens Friday, May 4. The super heroes offer a unique opportunity to analyze personality and teamwork. Individually, they have their own idiosyncrasies and talents. Together, they must learn how to share the spotlight and put aside their competitiveness and quirks to work effectively together. […]

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Objectives

Behavior

Lencioni’s businesslike approach to enhancing families reaches its culmination this week by reciting the five standard objectives that should be key in every family; they are: 1. Finances 2. Health 3. Faith 4. Education 5. Marriage In order for his model family to reach its rallying cry of more “quality time” with the family, he suggests

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Anchors

Behavior

This week Teresa, a mother in Lencioni’s story decides to go public with her friends and share her new plan to make family time the most important anchor in how they manage their time. The other moms are initially excited about her model, but after a week none of the other mom had tried to

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Core Values

Behavior

Just got back from our cabin, so musing is late. Lencioni points out that many families do not have a plan about how best to manage their responsibilities and commitments let alone doing it within a limited time frame. To overcome that impasse, he suggests each family develop their core values in the context of

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Lessons Learned From the Film Bully

Behavior

For the online version of this article, go to: www.coolkidschannel.com/e-tips/bully_film I attended a press screening of the documentary Bully on March 27. The film opens in theaters this Friday, April 13. The film gives us a window into the lives of youth dealing with bullying. It is no surprise to know that youth can be

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Overloaded

Behavior

My wife and I have only been home from our winter break for less than a week and already our life feels like it’s spinning out of control with busyness-and we are retired! Patrick Lencioni is a business man who has written a book about how to apply some of the principles he’s learned in business that

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Closing the Achievement Gap

Behavior

Wilson has researched why African-American youngsters score lower on Intelligence tests than Caucasians. Since my school job was to give IQ testing, I was fascinated by his research. He confirmed there is no innate difference. He touched on the usual reason given for the lower scores of non-white students. They include poverty, prenatal exposure to

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Reducing Prejudice

Behavior

Wilson points out that one of the best ways to reduce prejudice is for students of different races and ethnic backgrounds to work together to solve a problem. He calls this cooperative learning. Although much of his work was with older students than the ones we mentor, I believe this technique could be used successfully with

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Shaping Behavior

Behavior

Wilson talks about how adults use rewards and punishments to shape children’s behavior. From his research, he has concluded that both can be effective if used in moderation. He concludes, “Use the minimal sufficiency principle , whereby you dole out rewards and punishments that are strong enough to get your kids to do what you want

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Happiness- A Spiritual Pursuit

Behavior

Wilson suggests that personal well-being is the byproduct of happiness which results from three ingredients; meaning, hope, and purpose. Wilson has found that people of faith are able to create a personal life narrative that embraces these three ingredients. So what if life events have interrupted a person’s pursuit of these three goals? Wilson suggests the

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