We are starting a new tradition at Casady with our seniors.
Outside our offices is an empty board.
This year we're asking seniors to come sign and pin up their college acceptance letters.
Just like this one.
Our first acceptance.
And fittingly it is to OU. "Boomer"....."Sooner"!
Come April, we hope this board is bedecked and layered over with acceptance letters.
Last year we had a lot of colleges say to our seniors: "Yes, I see a potential fit!"
This year we hope to continue the upward trend of finding excellent college fits (plural) for each of our 73 seniors.
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Monday, August 29, 2011
Moments of Influence
I always love the "firsts" of a new school year.
The first day of class.
The first major assignment.
The first home football game under the Friday night lights.
The first college application. And therefore the first college recommendation I get to write.
And the first blog post.
As we begin the new year, I want to remind you as parents of what we all deep down want to keep and preserve as first in our lives.
If life is moments, then these dots represent moments of influence.
Moments where you (the parent) have the opportunity to positively impact the life of your child.
Or negatively impact them.
One of the things I most appreciated about my parents is how they intentionally carved out time with each of the four of us kids to "make a moment".
Dad and I, for example, would do lunch together, just the two of us, once a month through the high school years.
We had a favorite Chinese restaurant just across the street from the Olympic training facility in Colorado Springs.
Over cashew chicken, we would talk honestly and openly about the present and future.
Somehow dad was able to keep first things first.
I challenge you as we start the new year to carve out moments of influence with your son or daughter..
Make time just to be with your child.
To nurture what will last long after high school and the college search are over.
I am sure glad both my parents did that with me.
The first day of class.
The first major assignment.
The first home football game under the Friday night lights.
The first college application. And therefore the first college recommendation I get to write.
And the first blog post.
As we begin the new year, I want to remind you as parents of what we all deep down want to keep and preserve as first in our lives.
If life is moments, then these dots represent moments of influence.
Moments where you (the parent) have the opportunity to positively impact the life of your child.
Or negatively impact them.
One of the things I most appreciated about my parents is how they intentionally carved out time with each of the four of us kids to "make a moment".
Dad and I, for example, would do lunch together, just the two of us, once a month through the high school years.
We had a favorite Chinese restaurant just across the street from the Olympic training facility in Colorado Springs.
Over cashew chicken, we would talk honestly and openly about the present and future.
Somehow dad was able to keep first things first.
I challenge you as we start the new year to carve out moments of influence with your son or daughter..
Make time just to be with your child.
To nurture what will last long after high school and the college search are over.
I am sure glad both my parents did that with me.
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