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Session Summary
Council Track:Our Youth, Our Promise
Session Title:Children's Needs/Teaching Self-Love
Session Convener:Chris Dahl
Identified unique needs of children in today's world and things that impede satisfaction of their needs.
Best practices or lessons learned from our previous experiences on this topic and our conversation here:
Children need honest information about what is happening around the world - global knowledge; they need the background and the reality behind the media reports. Children need security, safety, structure, love, and a sense of self, positive reinforcement as opposed to fear tactics, direction, patience in our fast paced world, need to be welcomed. School structure should be multi-age grouped as opposed to same age peer grouped and children need more multigenerational communication and communication. Adults should be honest and not all-knowing and be willing to admit downfalls and apologize. Adults need to listen, know and have empathy toward troubled children's personal experience. Technology, TV, and electronics are creating personal isolation and limiting children's ability to learn how to communicate and interact as human beings.
New alliances formed between group members/participants:
Members found connections with like-minded individuals to build stronger relationships and also gleaned valuable information and ideas from different-minded individuals.n
What we will do following this conference, individually and collectively, to keep our work going:
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