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I just got off of my morning Zoom chat with the Eagles. I asked them to please give feedback to parents so we can learn how to make life at home better during this quarantine season.

They quickly gave five solid pieces of advice.

Here is one for you to remember on those gut wrenching days when your child faces ambiguity, failure, and emotional distress.

As we move into the week when it’s popular and expected to focus on being grateful, our Eagles are living it out every week – without a dressed turkey to trigger an emotion.

The wonder of the Hero’s Journey is that it honors each individual while holding up the importance of the community surrounding that individual.

We had to use ambiguity as a teacher and tool at Acton because ambiguity increases complexity, and makes decision-making more difficult.

Want to feel like an Acton parent who just finished our new parent bootcamp? Here are the bullet points to help you thrive on this learning adventure of a lifetime:

As a mom, I wrestled stubbornly with the transition from being my sons’ “everything” to being the person they had to lead out the door and close it quickly.

The honeymoon is over.  And the real work of learning and growing has begun.
This is the gritty path of the hero’s journey and it is not for the weak of heart.

As a mom of two Eagles, I experience the start of school as a quiet recognition of my own inner journey that requires courage and stillness amidst the bustle around me.

After a morning of observing the Eagles at work, he said it was a “high tech, high touch” school.
You can see it and feel it: the emphasis on human relationship is tangible in an Acton studio.