Teach Interpersonal Communication Skills to All Children

The Issue

We send children to school for years to learn math and even music by third party credentialed instructors. When it comes to the arguably more critical interpersonal communication skills, and children struggle on playgrounds absent proactive education, we call them names. We call them "Bullies", "Victims," and "Drama Queens." The costs of our failure to acknowledge the importance of interpersonal communication skills and the value of proactive instruction are present in every avenue of human interaction. This is your opportunity to link arms and be the change the world awaits.

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Marlaine CoverPetition StarterI first became aware of the disparity between societal appreciation for academics and non-academic Life Skills while raising my own daughters. For academics society mandated years of instruction by third party credentialed instructors. For all the other non-academic Life Skills, however, the operative paradigm was "children learn what they live." Desperate to balance the scales, I created a communication tool I call The Life Skills Report Card (LSRC). The LSRC proved such a game changer in my own family that I decided to create a website to share it freely with the public. I also formed the Parenting 2.0 group on LinkedIn to support Life Skill educators. Today, Parenting 2.0 is LinkedIn's top ranked parenting group with 2000 members in over fifty countries. We are holding our first international conference "P20 Talks" to publicly speak to the importance of proactive Life Skills education in San Diego, CA in August of 2012.
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The Issue

We send children to school for years to learn math and even music by third party credentialed instructors. When it comes to the arguably more critical interpersonal communication skills, and children struggle on playgrounds absent proactive education, we call them names. We call them "Bullies", "Victims," and "Drama Queens." The costs of our failure to acknowledge the importance of interpersonal communication skills and the value of proactive instruction are present in every avenue of human interaction. This is your opportunity to link arms and be the change the world awaits.

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Marlaine CoverPetition StarterI first became aware of the disparity between societal appreciation for academics and non-academic Life Skills while raising my own daughters. For academics society mandated years of instruction by third party credentialed instructors. For all the other non-academic Life Skills, however, the operative paradigm was "children learn what they live." Desperate to balance the scales, I created a communication tool I call The Life Skills Report Card (LSRC). The LSRC proved such a game changer in my own family that I decided to create a website to share it freely with the public. I also formed the Parenting 2.0 group on LinkedIn to support Life Skill educators. Today, Parenting 2.0 is LinkedIn's top ranked parenting group with 2000 members in over fifty countries. We are holding our first international conference "P20 Talks" to publicly speak to the importance of proactive Life Skills education in San Diego, CA in August of 2012.

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Petition created on July 6, 2012