First Answers

Our children are often faced with confusing messages about what kind of person to be and become. Over time children can fail to establish a strong and complete sense of identity and remain diffused or living without a sense of wholeness. This makes them much more vulnerable to external persuasion. To compensate for that, the parents of 21st-century children need greater skill in helping children form a strong sense of their identity. This episode introduces definitions of identity, characteristics of complete and incomplete identities, and steps parents can take to help children grow into a positive and healthy identity for themselves.

To love and be loved requires tools, motivation, and the capacity to feel deeply. The motivation to love and the feelings themselves are often created by a communication event, which results in one or both people knowing and understanding one another in a highly personal manner. In this episode, you can learn several times and methods you can use to improve your capacity for self-disclosure and understanding. As a result, your life can be enriched, and more love can be yours.

When there is a threat to our families, there is wisdom in learning about what the threat is and then making adjustments where necessary to compensate. In this episode, you will learn about two trends that represent threats to the healthy growth of our children. The first threat is the increased tendency to make agreements and then ignore them. This allows people into the process of negotiating, and instead of honoring contracts or agreements, use them instead to gain an advantage. The second threat is the socialized and institutionalized acceptance of laziness and complacency regarding work, relationships, and religious commitments. This has always been an issue, but nowadays it is often supported by many peers and adults.

Sometimes what happens in the world outside our family has little effect and can be disregarded. There are other times when ideas and social conditions are so widespread and predatory on the lives and minds of our children that, unless we are aware, our families can be harmed by our failure to be vigilant. In this episode, learn about two conditions that pose serious threats to the wellbeing of families everywhere because they have been set free in our society and are currently inside our schools, our churches, and our neighborhoods. Dr. Scoresby then discusses three positive ways you can render these threats less powerful and therefore potentially less harmful.

Very little happens without leadership. Learn the nine qualities you can instill in your organization that create the conditions that reduce resistance to change and promote the group and individual process toward growth and progress.

When you look at your children, do you see them motivated to complete their inherited potential and to become competent and successful in their family and in the outside environment? If not, learn how to do this so you can see how to make adjustments to each child and better promote their happiness and success.

It is amazing when parents understand exactly what is happening when children develop and grow. In this episode, Dr. Scoresby gives you a developmental perspective, which can make your work with children more individualized, more effective, and a lot more fun.

In this episode, Dr. Scoresby will explain how to help students master a new method of symbolic learning that is fun and creative and improves memory. This method can help learners retain large quantities of information and process it effectively.

Instead of relying on intelligence as a single score, recent research has focused on the idea of multiple intelligences. These eight types of intelligence allow teachers and parents to use the strengths of those they teach as tools of learning and motivation. In this episode, Dr. Scoresby will describe each type of intelligence and how to recognize them in your children.

We know that leadership is mostly about relating to people and using this knowledge to exert positive influence toward a desired outcome. Great leaders, however, make this happen by knowing how to find the right people and then activating the freedom to choose. In this episode, Dr. Scoresby offers the most up-to-date methods of selecting the right people and also suggests several ways to activate freedom so they are more creative and productive than they would be around leaders who offer mediocre leadership.