Written by Jeff Londraville & Seth Stutman

With the school year starting, we wanted to share a few tips to help you and your family handle the transition to another year at school.  Jeff Londraville is the author of The Filter, and has worked for decades in education.  

5 Important Values to Teach Your Kids:

1. Have the courage to fail. Pushing kids to perfection causes increased anxiety and depression

2. Nurture your creativity.  Creating is simply the act of making something that was not there before. It's all about freedom of expression.  The freedom to fearlessly explore the world is the bedrock of human creativity.

3. You have much more in common with your fellow humans than not. We have so much in common with our fellow earth-dwellers despite our apparent outward differences. Too often, these differences - racial, ethnic, religious, cultural, generational - are used to justify horrific acts of prejudice and aggression.

4. Embrace your differences. It is also important to celebrate the things that make us unique. 

5. You can't get rid of all the stress in the world but you can learn how to better cope with it.  We must teach them more effective ways, like yoga and meditation, to cope with what inevitably will come their way.