FAQ Number 6

Who has 20 years of experience following a highly successful proprietary curriculum based on solid research of child development and skill sets of success?

“Our mission at PALS—Praise and Leadership Schools—is simple: We want to provide children with the tools, beliefs, self-image, and skills they will need in order to reach their highest potential in life. With the PALS foundation, children discover and expand their own unique gifts and love of learning, upon which they can build a lifetime of fun, adventure, success, and happiness."

Did you ever stop to write down what exactly you want for your child? What skills and beliefs will your child need in order to set and achieve their goals in life? Did you ever stop to think about the skillsets of success? What are they? How will you teach them to your child?

Through interviews with successful people including: financier and philanthropist, Sir John Templeton; best selling author, Marianne Williamson ; publisher, Charles Scribner; basketball great, Larry Bird; philanthropist, Mother Theresa; founder of Celestial Seasons Teas, Mo Siegel; and real estate icon, Mary Ann Tighe; among others, I have discovered the answers to these questions and have found that whatever a person chooses to do in life, the components of success or the skillsets required to be successful in any endeavor are relatively similar.

By compiling these interviews and looking for the common denominators of success, I found that the most broad range topics of these skills start with the following:

• Beliefs about God self and others – successful people hold beliefs about themselves that they are worthy of success, can and are destined to achieve their goals, that the world is good and that they are made in Gods image and God only makes good things. Successful people also exhibit high levels of virtue, whether it is persistence, unity, passion for excellence, generosity, or honesty, among others. In polled audiences when asked to name the top three skillsets of success, 80% of answers are virtues.

• Decision Making- successful people have a process for making good decisions.

• Goal setting – successful people know how to set goals, analyze their progress and realign in order to achieve their goals while maintaining virtue and integrity.

• Problem solving – successful people know how to solve problems – not just mathematical ones.

• Communication/conflict resolution – successful people know how to communicate with others in order to clearly and effectively communicate their ideas, and they also know how to resolve conflict peacefully when it arises.

• Successful people are concerned about untiy, the world around them and contributing their best to make the world a better place for all of us to live.

For this reason, we have developed a proprietary curriculum based on the above skillsets of success, which is grounded in solid research on the components of success, and combined with sound theory of brain development and cognitive advancement. Our proprietary Lifeskills Curriculum is designed to teach children the fundamental skillsets of success, in an environment of fun, child-centered activities where they can learn without realizing they are being taught.”