10 Ways to Ruin Your Child’s Mindset by Their 18th Birthday A field guide to everything you should never do — read backwards, it’s a parenting philosophy. Nobody sets out to raise a child who feels powerless, distracted, and stuck. But mindsets aren’t built in a single dramatic moment. They’re built in thousands of small, …
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Curriculum Update: Marketing to Consciousness (Grades 8–12) Marketing to Consciousness is now complete across all five grades, Grade 8 through Grade 12. Here’s what it is, where it fits, and why it’s built the way it is. Where it picks up Business for Teens runs on the Business Consciousness Scale — eight levels, from Victim …
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Curriculum Update: Words for the Moment (Grades 8–12) Words for the Moment is now complete across all five grades, Grade 8 through Grade 12. Here’s what it is, where it fits, and why it’s built the way it is. Where it picks up Common Word Play runs from the early grades through Grade 7, building …
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Resilience Isn’t a Skill You Build. It’s a Setting You Return To. There’s a version of “teaching resilience” that I think quietly makes kids less resilient, and I used to fall for it constantly. It goes like this: kid gets upset. Parent, meaning well, jumps in immediately with a lesson. “It’s okay to be disappointed, …
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Cognitive Bias Isn’t Just a Logic Problem. It’s a Mood Problem. Quick question for you: when’s the last time you made a genuinely bad decision while you were calm, well-rested, and in a good mood? I’m not saying it never happens. But most of the spectacularly bad calls in my own life — the snap …
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Your Kid Isn’t Giving You a Hard Time. Their Thinking Is Giving Them a Hard Time. I want to tell you about the worst parenting advice I ever accidentally followed, and the one idea that quietly undid it. Here’s the pattern most of us fall into without noticing: kid melts down, we scan the room …
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Two years ago, we built Inner Compass as a digital tool to help kids navigate the biggest question of growing up: who am I, actually? It was interactive, it was colorful, and for a lot of families, it worked. But two years is a long time, and the version of Inner Compass that’s been sitting on the site lately was starting to show its age.
Scott Adams (1957-2026): A thinker who taught us to fail forward Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert and author of influential self-improvement books, died on January 13, 2026, at age 68 from metastatic prostate cancer. In his final prepared statement, read by his ex-wife Shelly Miles, he wrote: “I had an amazing life. I gave it …
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Stop Dimming Your Light: Learning to Trust Your Authentic Voice There’s a moment that happens dozens of times a day, maybe more. You feel a pull to say something, do something, or try something new. The impulse is clear and immediate. But before you can act on it, another voice steps in—questioning, calculating, editing. Within …
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Instead of jumping straight to solutions, teach your children to ask “why” repeatedly until they reach the root cause.
