Chris Balme
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238 appearances
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first heard Mar 2023
last heard Mar 2023
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But most of the time, if you've just hired a guide and this is your trip and your adventure, you don't want someone who's constantly lecturing you or only talking about the dangers.
Hopefully someone they're enjoying themselves and they're pointing out things that are beautiful and they are are appreciating you and listening and letting you have your adventure.
So I I think that is our job description.
that if you see an adolescent as someone on an epic adventure
You know, an adventurer doesn't need a boss traveling with them.
They need a good companion.
Someone who will jump in when they're about to hurt themselves, but also but most of the time is there to help them enjoy the adventure.
That's the idea of companioning.
Yeah, talk about one sentence that probably takes a lifetime to figure out how to do.
Excellent.
I can probably get carried away about this, but the idea of adventure as not something that's always positive.
Going to Disneyland is not what I mean.
And adventure is like, you know, a big trip that we're undertaking that will have moments of struggle, but also real moments of self-discovery and awe.
That that is absolutely where they are.
I mean, if we can think back to those years in our lives and realize what it was like.
Like remember, you know, to wake up feeling really different, to have your body changing, to have your friendships changing, just to be getting smarter, like a lot smarter over the course of these years.
That I think that's worthy of the term adventure.
And I think it's a it's a happier place to be for us as parents.
Yeah, so the idea there is that starting around middle school, a lot of fear creeps into how we think about their learning experiences.
Elementary, we often feel much more open to play-based learning and letting them explore and progress at different paces.
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