The Road Back to Freedom: Divide and Conquer Pt 3
This Week's Poll
In this final installment we're calling, "Divide and Conquer", and with Part 1 and Part 2 as our foundational backdrop, we're going to specifically focus on #9 of last week's list, the Divide & Conquer tactic. You'll understand why it's the focus after you listen to our conversation below.
Divide and Conquer, One Counselor at a Time
This entire series came about because the Standards Committee tasked with streamlining the 4 boards' rulebooks thinks it's a good idea (among many other bad ideas proposed) to increase the multi-cultural requirement to 3 hours every two years. Read my comments on that in last week's bonus post.
My good friend, Kip Rodgers LPC-S and I have spent many hours talking about this topic and we decided to record our conversation and share it with you. Have a listen and then we'll wrap this up.
How Do We Regain Our Moral and Professional Compass?
I don't believe that the majority of us have lost it! I truly believe that the majority of counselors believe, for the most part, as Kip and I do, especially on the major points. Our weak spot is that, like a lot of Americans, we keep our noses to the daily grindstone, tend to neglect what's really going on in the world, and we fail, horribly, to speak up.
Summary: Where Do We Go From Here?
There is no white knight that will ride in and save us all. Like a colony of honey bees, each one of us can only do what we can do at the local level and watch that roll up to the State, then the National level, and finally, witness the global impact. That's the good news; that you don't have to save the world, WE can do it together and all you have to do is all you've got. Just do something to be counted in your world and don't rely on someone else to do it. You are someone else.
Feel free to leave your comments below. We can change the world, one honey-bee at a time. You got this!
Plan Smart. Be Safe. Serve Others.
Kathleen Mills, LPC-S, CEAP
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One of the things that ties into your conversation with Kip is that having two working parents increases the financial pressure. If you and your spouse both work, and I try to do it on my own, then I have a disadvantage, but because of gender equality, everyone should be working and be equal.
This leads to kids showing up at school an hour before school starts and staying afterwards for hours as well as the state takes on the responsibility for facilitating two parents working which means that everyone is paying for those parents child care. Then because the average household income increases, the price of homes increases, the costs of everything goes up in basic economic ways. So we shoot ourselves in the foot.
My wife and I have 6 children. My starting salary of my first job was just 33,000 and yet we have worked hard to make it work with a single working parent and it means sacrificing the way you have described no longer being the norm. But at the same time it is helpful for the children as everyone has to chip in and help.
Thank you for your input, Brent. I’m just gonna leave that right here…