This was in my reader the other day. Similar to yesterday’s re-blog, it made sense when I read it. Children look to us, in various adult roles, to guide them and help them find their path. Rest our hands gently on their shoulder as they walk their path.

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I have held onto this dog-eared sheet of good wisdom for years. I am not a parent but have watched good friends and family members raise their children and know that it is one of the toughest jobs out there. I salute all parents and all with the courage and love and compassion to be parents who follow these types of guidelines.

With love… Mare

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In keeping with bell hooks and Noam Chomsky, I consider myself a public and dissident intellectual. Part of my work is to move beyond (transcend) institutional dogmas that bind me to defend freedom, raising my voice to be heard on behalf of those who seek equity and justice in all their forms. I completed my PhD in Philosophy of Leadership Studies at Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA. My dissertation and research was how teachers experience becoming teachers and their role as leaders. I focus on leading, communicating, and innovating in organizations. This includes mindfuful servant-leadership, World Cafe events, Appreciative Inquiry, and expressing one's self through creativity. I offer retreats, workshops, and presentations that can be tailored to your organzations specific needs. I published peer reviewed articles about schools as learning organizations, currere as an ethical pursuit, and hope as an essential element of adult eductaion. I published three poems and am currently preparing my poetry to publish as an anthology of poetry. I present on mindful leadership, servant leadership, schools as learning organizations, how teachers experience becoming teachers, assessement, and critical thinking. I facilitate mindfulness, hospitality retreats. and World Cafe Events using Appreciative Inquiry. I am writing and researching about various forms of leadership, how teachers inform and form their identity as a particular teacher, schools as learning organizations, hope, nonviolence and its anticipatory relationship with the future, as essential elements to teaching and learning. Academic publications can be found at Ivon Gile Prefontaine on ResearchGate

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  1. This is worth passing along so face booking and reblogging!! Have a blessed day Ivon!

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  2. I don’t know why, but this moves me to tears.

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  3. Wonderful. Absolutely wonderful!

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  4. Ivan, I’ve chosen you as one my favorite blogs… 🙂 for the Versatile Blogging Award. Info is on my latest post. Your support has meant so much to me!

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  5. A great parenting guide!
    Russ

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  6. Your message is such a blessing! It is so inspiring and true, thanks for sharing!

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  7. This really helps me realize what a remark-one we just blurt out” or maybe an action thaat means no harm can do. I have had these things done to me, I dont think people ralize the impact of these little things….nice reminder. beebeesworld

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    • We do, but in my experience the words come out and we regret them after the fact. It takes a more mindful approach which often arrives as we mature. At least that is what I have found in my life. Thank you for the wonderful comment.

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  8. Excellent and inspiring and wise. Thank you from me and my children 🙂

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  9. Thank you. I’ve just printed the memo for wider distribution in my household 🙂

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