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Identity and Persona

featuring Alvaro de Vicente

Identity and Persona

As boys grow into men they grapple with important questions: “who am I?”; “why am I here?”; “what is my purpose?” Mr. de Vicente takes on the question of persona and identity in the next two episodes of HeightsCast, addressing how we, as parents and teachers, can help our boys develop a healthy sense of self through an ordered process of reflection.
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Podcast

Identity and Persona

featuring Alvaro de Vicente

Identity and Persona

For Part 1, click here. As boys grow into men they grapple with important questions: “who am I?”; “why am I here?”; “what is my purpose?” Mr. de Vicente takes on the question of persona and identity in these two episodes of HeightsCast.  In Episode 1 he discussed how we all form our personas and how boys, specifically, go about that process.  In this episode, Mr. de Vicente discusses how we as parents can help our boys form a persona that helps them engage the world around them in a...
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Building a Relationship of Trust

featuring Alvaro de Vicente

Building a Relationship of Trust

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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On Discipline

featuring Colin Gleason

On Discipline

Lower School Head, Colin Gleason, shares his thoughts on discipline in the home. Drawing from his experience directing The Heights Lower School for 11 years, and from his nearly 20 years of working closely with families, Mr. Gleason will encourage us to foster a respectful dominion in the home. Often we err on either side of this happy medium, giving way to being overly permissive or excessively authoritative. In an age that implicitly pushes our sons towards questioning everything, how do we raise them in such a way that they...
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On Friendships in the Home

featuring Tom Royals

On Friendships in the Home

Note from producer: This conversation was originally published on March 23, 2021, but has been updated and republished on June 13, 2024. As we look forward to the wide expanse of summer, one thing certainly on our minds is how we can support our sons’ friendships in the absence of school. Turns out, we needn’t look further than our own living rooms. In fact, welcoming our children’s friends into our homes may be the healthiest place for authentic, lifelong friendship to grow. In a timely rebroadcast from 2021, Assistant Headmaster...
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Parents as Primary Educators

by Rich Moss

Parents as Primary Educators

Parents exploring our resources for the first time are invited to start here. We begin at the heart of the matter: your son and how he sees himself.  We move there from how you and he can build a relationship of trust.
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Responsibilities of Parents in the School

featuring Alvaro de Vicente

Responsibilities of Parents in the School

We have often heard it said that parents are the primary educators of their children.  Among others, we find the seeds of this idea in Cicero, for whom nature herself has instilled a “strangely tender love” for one’s children.  It is likewise hinted at in Aquinas, who referred to the parental care of young children as a sort of “spiritual womb”.  More to the point, just over half a century ago The Church herself, in Gravissimum educationis, has reminded us of this fundamental fact: “since parents have given children their life, they are...
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Friendship and the 21st Century Boy

featuring Alvaro de Vicente

Friendship and the 21st Century Boy

The real problem for many today is not ADD; it is, rather, what Headmaster Alvaro de Vicente refers to as IDD: intimacy deficit disorder. This problem is even worse for men, who on average have fewer close friends. Studies indicate that the percentage of males who report having at least six close friends has been cut in half since the 1990s. There is, it would seem, a recession in male friendships. While there is no easy panacea for this problem, as with most things, one’s education can have a lasting impact on...

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Parents exploring our resources for the first time are invited to start here. We begin at the heart of the matter: your son and how he sees himself.  We move there from how you and he can build a relationship of trust.  Discipline, friendships, and school follow, as we work together to teach our sons to love the right things and well.