What this Generation of Children
Really Wants from Its Parents

In a survey conducted by Ellen Galinsky of the Families and Work Institute, over a thousand children were asked, "If you were granted one wish about your parents, what would it be?"

What would your children say if they were asked this question?

Think about it for a minute or two. This is a profound idea.

I asked our thirteen-year-old son Ammon this question, and his immediate response was, "I don't know."

Many thirteen-year-old boys use this as a pat answer for a lot of questions.

When I pressed him further, he said, "I guess, um, I would wish you guys to be less intense about things, just relax more and have fun."

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For more ideas on developing your mentoring skills, see The Student Whisperer.

Oliver DeMille is a co-founder of the Center for Social Leadership, and a co-creator of TJEd.

He is the author of A Thomas Jefferson Education: Teaching a Generation of Leaders for the 21st Century, The Coming Aristocracy: Education & the Future of Freedom, and FreedomShift: 3 Choices to Reclaim America's Destiny.

Oliver is dedicated to promoting freedom through leadership education. He and his wife Rachel are raising their eight children in Cedar City, Utah.