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Now can I cite something though? �Cause there's this book I just read about nurturing your kids nature that I really like how they define your Childs strengths as being not the same things as skills. �Strengths can be turned into skills. �Strengths are the things that when you do them you feel energized. �and with the practice,practice mold we're always focusing on kids weaknesses, trying to fix them. �Any passion is going to be from an area that makes you feel strong, alive, energized from doing it, not from an area of weakness. �Not that this helps the argument because the Chaunese clan says you feel strong on your 10,001st hour. (whatever the physical # translates to). �Conversely the unschool of thought says you can only find that passion from finding your own path. �I like this book I just read because it solved one of my parenting paradox I made for myself three years ago. �How can I unschool ds, even if I send him to public school. �Jenifer Fox m.Ed, gym teacher/author has replied, "by teaching your child how to reflect on their own feelings and refine their understanding of what activities they engage in that makes them feel strong and more energized after they do them, and keep pinpointing what exact aspects of that activity energizes you, so you can approach every task through the lens of your strength (...paraphrased poorly:) and probably what the unschoolers are saving their children from, which is a NCLB weakness based school system with a mission statement goal of fixing kids, of spending eight hours a day for thirteen years only being told what's wrong about you. �Never really celebrating what's right about you. �Because we have to fix what's wrong with you first. �Who cares if you can X, you can't Y. �So Y you'll do all day until your X regressed enough to match. �

But with this new positive psychology movement, "the nurtured heart approach", the strengths movement, the "your child's strengths". �I'm beginning to manifest a solid physical line, a definite shape of what it looks like to show my kids how to , crap. �I lost it..