Help Your Child Reach Their Full Potential with Kim Langen

<p>In today’s episode, we have Kim Langen. She has the mission to provide opportunities for youth — in Canada and around the globe — that expand their knowledge and foster their ability to approach difficult problems now, so they will be emboldened to tackle even more significant challenges later. Kim envisions a world where other individuals, companies, and institutions believe as strongly as she does in nurturing today’s problem solvers and choose to work alongside me in creating tomorrow’s leaders.</p> <p><strong>What gave her the inspiration to start this school for kids? (05:15)</strong></p> <p>- In she beginning she was teaching high school, math and science at that time. Her husband had just got out of the military and she thought this would be pretty cool. She noticed the kid’s thought pattern was so different than anything else. I</p> <p>- This lead her to this program in the basement of home, developed it with 35 students at the beginning of the year, ended up being 80 students coming in throughout the week and ended up developing it like they started with grades seven, eight, nine</p> <p>- Understand that doubters are going to push back at you and you gotta be able to not be afraid to continue to push through the limits. Create a goal that's far beyond your lifetime and your reach because sometimes you set a goal solo and you hit it.</p> <p>- How kids are in generation, how they're going to come up and make an impact themselves.That strong vision, the collaboration, the teamwork between our mom or dad and her, and just this ability to push the limits.<span class= "Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p><strong>What can parents do to enable kids to reach their full potential? (09:36)</strong></p> <p>- There are people all over the world. Who've come through our program who are in leadership positions and making good decisions because they've learned how to reason, their way through things.</p> <p>- Grit is needed. Discipline is needed, and that's when you have something tough, you feel so much better wh