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Podcast
Identity and Persona
featuring Alvaro de VicenteIdentity 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 VicenteIdentity 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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Podcast
Building a Relationship of Trust
featuring Alvaro de VicenteBuilding 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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Video
On Discipline
featuring Colin GleasonOn 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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Podcast
On Friendships in the Home
featuring Tom RoyalsOn Friendships in the Home
Watch the follow-up webinar below for an additional discussion with Mr. Tom Royals about the topics from this episode. Mr. Tom Royals, Assistant Headmaster of The Heights, offers his thoughts on the importance of hosting our sons and their friends at home. Rather than being a place to be avoided, the home should be a social hub and a place of gathering for our boys. This takes work and investment, but the effort is worth the while when friendships flourish and our sons develop relationships informed by the culture of...
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Playlist
Parents as Primary Educators
by Rich MossParents 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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Podcast
Responsibilities of Parents in the School
featuring Alvaro de VicenteResponsibilities 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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Podcast
Friendship and the 21st Century Boy
featuring Alvaro de VicenteFriendship 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...