Bringing kindness to the schools
Zen Pop
Todd and Cathy Adams
4.9 • 637 Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2013
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
We discuss “Rachel’s Challenge”, a presentation for schools that focuses on kindness and self-awareness. This program that has reached over 19,000,000 people. Each day 160,000 students do not go to school because they are bullied, teased and harassed. By turning the story of a tragic death at Columbine High School into a mission for change, Rachel’s Challenge is helping create safer learning environments and making a world-wide impact.
Rachel’s Challenge is a series of student empowering programs and strategies that equip students and adults to combat bullying and allay feelings of isolation and despair by creating a culture of kindness and compassion. The programs are based on the writings and life of 17 year-old Rachel Scott who was the first student killed at Columbine High School in 1999. Rachel left a legacy of reaching out to those who were different, who were picked on by others, or who were new at her school.
Within this discussion we discuss the 5 things we can do right now to become better parents:
Look for the best in others
Dream big
Choose positive influences
Speak with kindness
Start your own chain reaction
We also discuss Todd and Skylar’s battle over a banana, and we answer an email from a listener whose 5 year old is struggling with going in the classroom during church.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, here we go. |
| 0:09.7 | Zen Parenting Radio, episode number one four zero. |
| 0:12.7 | Thank you for joining us, everybody and anybody. |
| 0:16.9 | Zen Parenting Radio, you know what we are, sweetie? |
| 0:18.8 | I do. |
| 0:19.8 | We are a discussion between a spiritual and emotional mom and a logical and practical dad. |
| 0:24.6 | We have three daughters. |
| 0:25.5 | Count of three, one, two, three, ages five, eight, and ten. |
| 0:28.7 | Our goal is to give you the resources to become a better parent, but more importantly, much more importantly, to become a better... |
| 0:34.9 | You. |
| 0:35.9 | You, very good. |
| 0:36.8 | So this is what we got going for you. |
| 0:38.4 | You went to some presentation this morning. |
| 0:40.4 | I did. |
| 0:40.9 | It's called Rachel's Challenge. |
| 0:42.2 | Yes. |
| 0:43.3 | I have a little heated moment within our family that I'm going to talk about. |
| 0:49.0 | Ooh, between you and I? |
| 0:51.7 | No, it was between me and Skyler. |
| 0:53.9 | But you were there. Iler. Oh, he did. |
| 0:54.5 | But you were there. |
| 0:55.2 | I was. |
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