Comments on: Imagine https://cruciallearning.com/blog/imagine/ VitalSmarts is now Crucial Learning Tue, 29 Aug 2017 18:44:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 By: bean q https://cruciallearning.com/blog/imagine/#comment-5904 Tue, 29 Aug 2017 18:44:58 +0000 http://www.vitalsmarts.com/crucialskills/?p=7042#comment-5904 “imagine teaching peacemaking skills”
i HAVE been imagining that ever since i started wanting to include these lessons in my future childrens’ curricula and/or in a classroom i might one day head… any pointers? i haven’t yet tried, but i might try saving age-appropriate anecdotes for them, finding a first few lessons that should match their brain development or … ???

have you guys made any strides there?

]]> By: Julinda https://cruciallearning.com/blog/imagine/#comment-5903 Thu, 03 Aug 2017 15:14:01 +0000 http://www.vitalsmarts.com/crucialskills/?p=7042#comment-5903 Before there can be peace in the school (and the world), I believe there needs to be peace in the home. Children who are mistreated, pushed around, hit, etc. at home are going to have a harder time being gentle and peaceful citizens. I have tried to raise my kids in a peaceful, respectful, and gentle manner.

]]> By: Julinda https://cruciallearning.com/blog/imagine/#comment-5902 Thu, 03 Aug 2017 15:10:01 +0000 http://www.vitalsmarts.com/crucialskills/?p=7042#comment-5902 In reply to BR.

Great idea!!

]]> By: Anonymous https://cruciallearning.com/blog/imagine/#comment-5901 Thu, 06 Jul 2017 12:52:10 +0000 http://www.vitalsmarts.com/crucialskills/?p=7042#comment-5901 Bravo – well stated and all so true. Your experience was similar to that of Frank Peretti as described in his book The Wounded Spirit.

]]> By: Phil Stenstrom https://cruciallearning.com/blog/imagine/#comment-5900 Tue, 04 Jul 2017 14:49:19 +0000 http://www.vitalsmarts.com/crucialskills/?p=7042#comment-5900 I am enjoying the Imagine blog post from Bangkok where Im a summer Fellow at the Rotary Peace Center, and my cohort of 24 students from 20 countries are learning exactly the skills that Mr. Patterson suggests are in short supply. My only wish is that more opportunities existed for each of us to learn and practice being more comfortable in discomfort.
Learning that it is indeed possible gives me hope for the future.

]]> By: BR https://cruciallearning.com/blog/imagine/#comment-5899 Fri, 30 Jun 2017 14:27:20 +0000 http://www.vitalsmarts.com/crucialskills/?p=7042#comment-5899 Can you send a copy of this to the President … and Senators … and Representatives?

]]> By: Marcus Aurelius https://cruciallearning.com/blog/imagine/#comment-5898 Thu, 29 Jun 2017 18:37:32 +0000 http://www.vitalsmarts.com/crucialskills/?p=7042#comment-5898 In reply to julindaa.

The most peace loving people I know are officers in the military. Regrettable, such ignorance!

]]> By: Clifford Spoonemore https://cruciallearning.com/blog/imagine/#comment-5897 Thu, 29 Jun 2017 18:20:29 +0000 http://www.vitalsmarts.com/crucialskills/?p=7042#comment-5897 This is very interesting and I too had to pass down this alley in the locker room. I did not think myself to be a bully as I did not try to push fellow students around. I did try to snap that towel, but if I remember correctly I knew better than to try on some of the older students. My Jr high PE instructor shared the “Board of Education” with me, and I learned from it.

Now I hear my grandson saying things like “if they do that to me, I will get even”. He is a good sized boy and is very competitive. He may be that Win, and then Win again type. His Father is competitive also and serves in the military. I respect his commitment to our Country. The win first is not okay unless you also learn to loose.

Yes, we like Champions. In all sports the other team practices also and they can win also. It is great to have a competitive drive, to do your best and work hard to improve yourself. You also need to work to improve your team that you work with. I have never been on or seen a team win a championship with just one superb individual. It takes a set of co-stars working together to make a winner.

Peace has to be worked at and it is not just one super individual such as Gandhi. It is us working together sharing and speaking out that this is not okay. Channel the energy in a more productive manner. I need to find that way with my grandson. To let him know you cannot measure when you have “gotten even” as we tend to get a little more than even. This will be a challenge to all of us as we watch and participate in our future generations lives. As it was said “it takes a village….”

Peace be with all of you.
CES

]]> By: julindaa https://cruciallearning.com/blog/imagine/#comment-5896 Thu, 29 Jun 2017 18:14:31 +0000 http://www.vitalsmarts.com/crucialskills/?p=7042#comment-5896 In reply to Scott.

Scott, that’s a great idea. A few years ago our church was going to put in a “peace pole” – a small squared post with the word “Peace” on each of the four sides, in different languages – and there was some debate about it! In a church! Doesn’t everyone want peace? I guess some thought of it as anti-military.

]]> By: Jo https://cruciallearning.com/blog/imagine/#comment-5895 Thu, 29 Jun 2017 14:37:53 +0000 http://www.vitalsmarts.com/crucialskills/?p=7042#comment-5895 In reply to Julinda.

I know that to be true. He calls us to love everyone, and I pray for peace for all of us.

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