Launching Kids for Life

Being a parent is the most rewarding job in the world. Being a School Principal of a few hundred kids is also pretty rewarding. It’s also complicated. Life these days isn’t really that easy.

When I was a kid my days were full of school, running home, dodging swooping magpies, a quick Hi! to Mum and then out to the park to play till dark. Building cubbies, honkey nuts wars with the neighbours, trying to catch yabbies on a string at the dam, all equalled fun times. I remember being free as a kid. Outdoors was the norm. We felt safe to be gone from our parents from dawn to dusk. I think it was quite simple. We still had a bit of bullying, we still had our ups and downs, but we didn’t really have to navigate the complexities of a social media world, competition at every corner and extreme busyness.

These are some of the things I see in my role as a School Principal. I see a complex world, that both adults and kids are trying to navigate their way through. This is the first generation to be living in such an online platform and it is hard. We have access to the world but yet our world seems smaller. My question is – are we living in freedom? Are we launching our kids into a healthy, free life.

Are we launching our children into a life that is beneficial? 1 Corinthians 10:23 writes, “I have the right to do anything,” you say—but not everything is beneficial. “I have the right to do anything”—but not everything is constructive.”

This blog is aimed at sharing some of what I see on a daily basis and hopefully my ramblings might help someone with the journey we are on. Let’s call it a constructive conversation.

I hope you will enjoy my blog about ‘Launching Kids into Life’.