Our dedication is to the whole child. Our interest extends to the child’s family, neighborhood, school, and community. Each child’s well-being is contingent on the well-being of the extended network surrounding and supporting their growth.
Our interest in the whole child includes their well-rounded and well-balanced development. We must attend to each area of need and support carefully weighted, balanced, and multi-dimensional growth: music, art, sports, friendship, family, hobbies and interests, academic achievement, ethical and spiritual well-being. No one area can be allowed to consume our attention at the expense of another area. We must remain flexible and responsive to the child’s needs. We must nurture each child’s strengths and carefully attend to their weaknesses.
Elements of Character, Development, and a Healthy Lifestyle:
Growth is a dynamic process; a process leading toward resilience, a process leading toward a healthy and productive adult participant in society.
Leadership initiates the process.
Leadership is the beacon toward which the children grow. Leadership is the example or model we provide. What does our model look like? How do we nurture a carefully weighted and balanced lifestyle in our own lives and in the lives of the children we serve?
How do we nurture resilience? How do we nurture a sense of community in which growth and resilience will flourish?
The purpose of programming is to create a sense of community that will nurture, protect, and celebrate the children.
“I was seeing in a sacred manner the shape of all things in the Spirit and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being and I saw the sacred hoop of my people was one of many hoops that made one circle wide as daylight and as starlight. And in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father and I saw that it was Holy.”
~ Black Elk
© 2009 Kenneth H. Little. All rights reserved.
Our interest in the whole child includes their well-rounded and well-balanced development. We must attend to each area of need and support carefully weighted, balanced, and multi-dimensional growth: music, art, sports, friendship, family, hobbies and interests, academic achievement, ethical and spiritual well-being. No one area can be allowed to consume our attention at the expense of another area. We must remain flexible and responsive to the child’s needs. We must nurture each child’s strengths and carefully attend to their weaknesses.
Elements of Character, Development, and a Healthy Lifestyle:
- Honesty
- Creative Well-being
- Cooperation / Teamwork
- Physical Well-being
- Work
- Emotional Well-being
- Loyalty
- Intellectual Well-being
- Enthusiasm
- Ethical Well-being
- Determination
- Spiritual Well-being
- Curiosity / Inquisitiveness
- Community Well-being
- Playfulness
- Filial Well-being
- Optimism
- Social Well-being
- Resourcefulness
- Caring & Compassion
Growth is a dynamic process; a process leading toward resilience, a process leading toward a healthy and productive adult participant in society.
Leadership initiates the process.
Leadership is the beacon toward which the children grow. Leadership is the example or model we provide. What does our model look like? How do we nurture a carefully weighted and balanced lifestyle in our own lives and in the lives of the children we serve?
How do we nurture resilience? How do we nurture a sense of community in which growth and resilience will flourish?
The purpose of programming is to create a sense of community that will nurture, protect, and celebrate the children.
“I was seeing in a sacred manner the shape of all things in the Spirit and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being and I saw the sacred hoop of my people was one of many hoops that made one circle wide as daylight and as starlight. And in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father and I saw that it was Holy.”
~ Black Elk
© 2009 Kenneth H. Little. All rights reserved.
