When Al Gore’s movie “An Inconvenient Truth” came to our movie screens we were confronted with serious scientific data translated into everyday language for us to see the warning signs and dangers that potentially will destroy our planet.
What state will the world be in when our children inherit it from us?
In Al Gore’s words ….
“Humanity is sitting on a ticking time bomb. If the vast majority of the world’s scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet into a tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heats waves beyond anything we have ever experienced.”
What life skills and personal qualities will our children need to address these problems?
Perhaps even more importantly, what life skills and personal qualities will our children need to address these significant problems of the future?
In the ‘Strong Love’ Parenting philosophy we have identied a number of key attitudes and skills that we need to help our children develop to help them cope (and make a positive contribution) in the future.
We need to help them become ….
- Courageous – able to face problems, without fear, but with realistic optimism
- Resilient – strong enough to take a few knocks and get up again
- Hard-workers – willing to strive to achieve the goals they set for themselves
- Problem-solvers – apply their knowledge and skills to solving some of the world’s serious environmental and political issues
- Relationship-builders – able to understand issues from another’s perspective and skilled in building strong, lasting relationships
- Negotiators – able to consider of the needs of others while being respectful of their own
- Visionaries – able to see beyond themselves to other possibilities, and to be able to delay their own wants (gratification) for the sake of a greater goal
In simple words,
We need the children of the future to become –
strong, thoughtful problem-solvers.
What to do next?
- Go back to Preparing our children for the future
- Learn more about our online Family Program The 10 Secrets of Successful Families
