Over the years I’ve wondered why I’m so hell bent on putting a stop to bullying. Like most normal people, I feel really sad imagining a child being bullied; it’s just so hard to feel alone and hurt. When I think about a kid deciding that life is not worth living...
As you probably know – we can control very little in life; and so, controlling others is simply not possible. Yet, influencing them absolutely is! The only things we can really try to control in life are our thoughts and our actions – and I don’t write that...
So many of us go on and on about how the internet and addiction to our devices is negatively impacting us. Although, the truth is that we don’t know what we don’t know! I sound old when I tell young people, “when I was young…there was no...
Walking to the pool today, an elderly man in a wheelchair wildly gestures to me. He’s pointing at the pavement, where a summer hat lies, and then points to a woman and her daughter walking away. I was shouldering my chair and a large bag, and quickly jumped to...
Are kids spoiled rotten? Could they be losing their sense of gratitude? Is the fact that they’re spoiled affecting their happiness? I wonder. My mother gave so much to me but I didn’t feel deserving. She’d buy me clothes, toys, and junk food but...
Hello! It’s Jodi, founder of Imperative Education. You know, ever since I can remember I’ve been interested in how people communicate… how relationships are formed. At McGill University, I studied Communications so that I could take this focus from intuition to fact, and from serious interest to passion. I decided to become a teacher, like so many, to make a difference and that initial goal hasn’t paled at all throughout the years