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Building a Relationship of Trust with Your Son
featuring Alvaro de VicenteBuilding a Relationship of Trust with Your Son
Our headmaster, Alvaro de Vicente, offers a lecture on how to build a solid relationship of trust with your son. This relationship matters because it is the context within which you will form your boy’s character.
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Emotional Presence and Imperfect Parenting
featuring Alvaro de VicenteEmotional Presence and Imperfect Parenting
In an age of external perfectionism, our children’s failure to achieve the standards we set for them can cause us anxiety—which itself then becomes an obstacle to the very thriving we hope for. This week on HeightsCast, Headmaster Alvaro de Vicente discusses how to avoid this pitfall. He suggests thinking of good parenting as analogous to tacking into the wind: in order to stay on course, you need to be comfortable taking a non-linear path. In parenting, this means being more focused on processes and less attached to outcomes. It...
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Leading our Sons Towards Integrity
featuring Colin GleasonLeading our Sons Towards Integrity
Lower School Head, Colin Gleason, offers a Heights Lecture on integrity. He shares how honesty requires far more than merely telling the truth; our boys must learn to live the truth.
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Parenting: Patience or Optimism
featuring Andrew ReedParenting: Patience or Optimism
Does your son know that you believe in him? Andy Reed on the power of optimism.
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Learn to Turn: On Parental Prudence
featuring Tom RoyalsLearn to Turn: On Parental Prudence
While we often speak of the virtues we wish to see in our children, it is perhaps less common that we reflect on the particular virtues that we need to foster in ourselves. In this episode Mr. Tom Royals, 40+ year teaching veteran and Assistant Headmaster of The Heights, discusses the importance of parental prudence and its progeny: meekness, patience, and humility. In this week’s episode, we sit down with long-time Heights father and Assistant Headmaster, Mr. Tom Royals, to speak about the virtues of parenting. From his wealth of...
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Podcast
Seeing Our Boys with Loving Eyes with Tom Royals: Not Projects, but Persons
featuring Tom RoyalsSeeing Our Boys with Loving Eyes with Tom Royals: Not Projects, but Persons
In last week’s episode, we considered how beauty is a special combination of order and surprise. To behold beauty, we learned, is to contemplate the dynamism of a being on the way to its perfection. It is to see the rose emerging from its seed. This week we talk with assistant headmaster, Tom Royals, about learning to see the beauty—albeit often messy beauty—of our own growing children. To be sure, in this adventure, we may find more surprise than order. Nevertheless, in learning to see our children with loving eyes,...
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Podcast
Decisive Parenting
featuring Michael MoynihanDecisive Parenting
This week on Heightscast, an interview with Head of Upper School, Michael Moynihan, on his new book, Decisive Parenting. For more information or to purchase Michael’s book, click here.