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Why Parents and Mentors Must Stay the Course As parents and educators, we live in a world obsessed with immediate returns. We want to see the good behavior today, the improved report card this semester, or the athletic breakthrough this season. But true character development doesn’t follow a tech-startup growth curve. More often than not, … Read more

Every martial artist begins their journey as a white belt, looking forward to the day they finally earn their black belt. But my journey had a slightly unusual detour—one that took me straight onto a Hollywood movie set in 1983 to stand in for the original The Karate Kid, Ralph Macchio.   Plucked from the … Read more