Parallel Initiatives

Conversations about our nation’s crises, from the debt ceiling debate to dismal workforce forecasts, unilaterally include a phrase that brings home the magnitude and importance of addressing these issues.  Those two words – “our children” – bring gut-wrenching personal perspective to challenges that seem too big to resolve but too important not to try.

As parents, we really do want a bright future for “our children.” Standing alone, we feel helpless, and that helplessness is paralyzing.  It leads us to apathy and inaction.  And, it is dead wrong.

Parents are still the most powerful people in the lives of their children – ... Continue Reading