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Educating The Next Generation With Ceremonies, Rites Of Passage, Nature Immersion, Wilderness Survival & More

Ben Greenfield Life

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The Rite of Competence, Confidence Is Recognizing a Child's One Foot Still in Childhood

The rite of competence, confidence is acknowledging that a child has one foot still in childhood and kind of like at the hearth in the nest. So when our sons went through this ceremony, we acknowledged, hey, you can get dressed all by yourself. This is a big deal actually. And for my son River, it was for his kindergarten teacher. I explained to her, hey, he's emerging in more responsibility. He's a helper around the house. When we did that, it was really, really important that we had somebody else lead and facilitate it though, because we need that space to just be parents.

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