No kid in their right mind is going to sign up for an Anger Management or Healthy Relationships class.

Can you imagine how a child's life would improve if they learned this kind of thing now? Yes.. YOU, the parent, may want them to take a class like that.

We don't do math and science and language at Lift Academy. We cover the topics and skills that most homeschool, remote/distance/hybrid learning leave behind.

Yet, learning that kind of valuable skill would have immediate and long-lasting benefits for their entire lives, and a further ripple effect to possibly hundreds of other people.

See how we solve this problem with a proven approach using structure and content.

If this structure looks like a Scout, Young Entrepeneur, or Youth Group meeting, that's for a good reason! We want to help kids be their best!

Again, no kid with any shred of decency is going to go hunting down a class called "Active Listening!"

However, if the child was a pre-teen, and the class was called "How to make people love you", now we've got a hook to work with.. a problem the child is most likely very interested in solving.

This is a great example of a real problem a child of a certain age would be looking to solve. Emotions are powerful. They may need some guidance and a perspective change to negotiate their way through their feelings, but there are some skill opportunities here too!

So we can help them address the problem by breaking it down into pieces like this:

• Perspective shift: First of all, you can't make someone love you! This is not something we have control over, people have free will.

• Not getting that acceptance causes pain, so a little Stress Management is needed so we don't lash out at others or at ourselves while we find the time to process and accept this.

• But wait! Being a good listener does often help people to have a higher opinion of you, so let's learn a little Active Listening. It's always great to be kind and spread love!

• And whatever the result, you need to be OK with not being loved or even liked by any one particular person. So let's reinforce your Self Esteem.

Coming away, the child will have learned a few basic skills they can use in this particular problem, and begin to form patterns of thinking they can apply to other things in life.

Here are a lot of examples, based on two main sources of input:

• Kids were asked what they'd like to learn most
• Adults were asked what they wish they knew when they were young

We are in the process of prioritizing these for classes this fall! Please let us know below which you are interested in.

Each of these is a potential class. Can you imagine what a child's life would be like if they attended just 5 of these?