Challenge Day: Be the Change

This is the second year I was asked to be an adult facilitator during Challenge Day at Britton-Macon Area School. Each year, I've left the event really thinking about how I think about our youth. Just as teens have certain impressions of each other, so do we adults have certain set impressions of teens. Challenge Day reminds me that those impressions are limiting, not only to teens, but to me. I can't go into everything that happened during Challenge Day, but I can say that we have more in common with our young folks than we let on. We have similar fears, similar worries and more. However, we are fortunate as adults that we more often have more tools to deal with the fear and worry than our young counterparts. That's what Challenge Day taught me. Here is an Emmy Award-winning documentary by Arnold Shapiro Productions showing a bit of what Challenge Day is all about. I'll post all three parts throughout the weekend.