Our first rental house in Costa Rica was in the beautiful Orosi Valley, a sleepy, lush area that is definitely not on the typical tourist routes. The house we rented was an old coffee plantation. It was rustic and full of butterflies, cockroaches, and decades of old National Geographic magazines. It had an open-to-the-outside kitchen, no heating or cooling, no […]
Category: Growing Hearts
The Triumph of High Achievement
One of our family’s favorite quotes is from Theodore Roosevelt: “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and […]
Teaching Resilience
I’ve noticed a pattern as I talk to adults who interact with teenagers and young adults in the current generation. I hear over and over again that kids are more fragile. They lack resilience and the coping skills that are so necessary for handling the vicissitudes of life. So, these are things we hope to foster in our home. Here […]