Girls Gone Wild? No: Lady GodivaJohn Collier c. 1898, Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Coventry This enduring and popular English legend is, like many legends about historical figures, very unlikely…
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Making Failure OkayA couple of years ago, Jennifer, my husband and I took our kids to a ropes course called Adirondack Extreme. It is described as an…
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St. Ailbe and the WolfAmong the values that social courage can help us promote in our children are compassion, tolerance, caring and charity. These are the values we exhibit…
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Plan BI have two anecdotes to share today, and then something to say about them. Last year, my friend B. shared a wonderful “Plan B” story…
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Jean Labadie’s Big Black Dog and Shivering in the BathHere is an old Quebecois story I ran across recently in Kevin Crossley Holland’s The Young Oxford Book of Folk Tales. It’s an easy story…
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Quitters, Campers, and Climbers—Which One Are You?I would have thought that one of the side effects of writing a blog about courage would be an increase in my own courage quotient. In fact,…
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Using Moral Courage to Navigate Facebook and other Social Jungles!On the eve of my son’s adolescence, he begged me to let him have a facebook account. At the time, there was a loosely followed…
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Courage Challenge of the DayLion’s Whiskers offers this courage challenge: Consider a small-as-a-mouse or large-as-an-elephant obstacle in your or your child’s life blocking the way to personal or professional success. …
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Are You the Ant or the Grasshopper? And Which Are You Raising?A fable from Aesop that has seen a lot of play over the centuries is the Ant and the Grasshopper. The story extols the industrious…
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Courage Challenge of the DayHere is a social courage challenge especially for Westerners (tweens through adults), for whom physical affection between friends tends to be somewhat reserved. Next time…
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