Re-Ed Principles of Thomas Hobbs...

   l. Life is to be lived now, not in the past, and lived in the future only as a present challenge.

2. Trust between child and adult is essential...

Trust is the glue that holds teaching and learning together .... The first step in the reeducation process is to help the young person make a new and very important distinction that adults can be counted on as predictable sources of support, understanding and affection.

 3. Competence makes a difference, and children and adolescents should be helped to be good at something, and especially at schoolwork.

4. Time is an ally, working on the side of growth in a period of development when life has a tremendous forward thrust.

5. Self-control can be taught and children and adolescents helped to manage their behavior without the development of psychodynamic insight.

6. Intelligence can be taught. Intelligence is a dynamic, evolving, and malleable capacity for making good choices in living.

7. Feelings should be nurtured, shared spontaneously, controlled when necessary, expressed when too long repressed, and explored with trusted others ....

8. The group is very important to young people, and it can become a major source of instruction in growing up.

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9. Ceremony and ritual give order, stability, and confidence to troubled children and adolescents, whose lives are often in considerable disarray.

10. The body is the armature of the self, the physical self around which the psychological self is constructed.

  

11. Communities are important for children and youth, but the uses and benefits of community must be experienced to be learned.

12. A child should know some joy in each day and look forward to some joyous event for the morrow.

There is an extensive literature on anxiety, guilt and dread, but little that is well developed on joy.

We thus go beyond most contemporary psychology to touch one of the most vital areas of human experience.

We try to become skillful at developing joy ....

So...  as you walk around schools.... how much joy to you notice?  How many smiles and do you hear laughter??

If not...  you will know you have much work to do!!!!