Responsibility

Web Resources Related to Responsibility that Parents and Teachers Can View/Discuss with their Older Children.

(For best results, Google the bolded words for each article or video)

How to Teach Your Child to be More Responsible– This is a thoughtful article from Parenting Magazine on things you can do at home to teach your child to be more responsible.  Teach money management skills.

15 Tips to Raise a Responsible Child– This is an article from the website, Aha! Parenting, with similar advice about ways to encourage your child to be responsible.  Both articles offer a wide array of choices for parents who want to focus on responsibility.

Are You Taking Full Responsibility?– Danny Opheji shares his story of challenges from birth leading to teenage panic attacks and culminating in a decision to accept full responsibility for his happiness and joy.  This is a powerful (but less viewed) TedTalk that is a strong counter for those who believe that life has been too hard to accept responsibility, and in turn, to act on it.  Opheji ends his TedTalk with the statement, “Our earth needs many heroes, but your earth only needs one”.

The Opportunity of Adversity– Paralympic athlete, Aimee Mullins, shares her story of being born with a medical condition that resulted in amputation of both her legs below the knees and her eventual rise as a world class paralympic runner.  Aimee focuses on the words we use to define our lives and the way that our word choices impact children.  She describes adversity, not as an obstacle to get around in life, but as a core aspect of life itself.  The question is not whether you will meet adversity, but rather, how you will meet it.  The issue is not how to overcome adversity but how to welcome it.  Mullins argues for a meaningful life led by the responsibility we have to each other to inspire others to lead lives of curiosity and imagination.

Responsibility for Kids- Character Education– Educator, Jessica Diaz, talks about responsibility as a choice you make to take control of your life.  Her examples are a helpful reminder that the ways we interact with the world are ultimately in our own hands.

Do you know another self- help book, children’s book, article, TedTalk, or video that focuses on responsibility? Let us know with a one or two sentence summary sent to author@johnzurn.com.