Eric Karlan
speaker
286 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2019
last heard May 2019
Eric Karlan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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proclamation from your son or daughter from a place of possibility, you can say, well, my child is starting a band.
That means that they have leadership initiative.
And it also must mean they have creative musical talent if they can start a band.
It also means that they have the ability to collaborate and work well with others.
It means that if they are writing their own songs, that that's a different sort of creative pursuit.
with lyrics and poetry.
And then if the band starts playing shows around town, if they get paid for some, that's a job.
If they start playing charity gigs, that's community service.
Maybe your child ends up learning HTML programming to code and design the band's website, or maybe they start giving music lessons to other younger children in town, and that's another job.
There's so many opportunities to
quote unquote, check off all those boxes that colleges have wanted for years, the leadership and service and collaboration, et cetera.
What I try to emphasize to every family and especially families who are just entering or starting high school is that when we talk about what can I do for my child or what are the conversations I should be having at home with my ninth or 10th grader,
Of course, it's obvious to talk about the importance of them keeping up their grades and doing their schoolwork.
But it's also engaging your son or daughter in conversations about what are their interests?
What are their curiosities?
And I always hesitate to use the word passion.
Certainly, some students have a passion, sometimes multiple.
But I think even there's a lot of adults in the world who may not have a passion and
That's why I try to take that pressure off of students when we have those conversations is there may not be something that is their end all be all in life, but they may have lots of curiosities and lots of things that pick their interest and get that spark and glimmer in their eye.
And having those conversations and talking about ways to do a deeper dive or take an interest
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